We are thrilled to announce Piri Eddy as the recipient of the 2026 Scotch College Residency.
In partnership with Scotch College, Piri will receive a six-week paid residency within the English Faculty. Aiming to help further develop students’ writing and communication skills responding to creative themes.
About the writer:
Piri Eddy is an award-winning writer and producer living and working on Kaurna land.
As a screenwriter, Piri won Best Short Film at the 54th AWGIE awards for The Last Elephant on Earth, which had its international premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such places as The Saturday Paper, Island Magazine, and Westerly Magazine and he has written arts criticism and reviews for Australian Book Review and CityMag.
Piri’s debut play Forgiveness won the 2020 Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award. His follow-up The Spoil was nominated for the same award in 2024 and was a finalist for the 2026 Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award.
Piri has been a writer-in-residence at the Adelaide Festival Theatre, The Mill, and Writers SA, and was a 2025 SA Literary Fellow at the State Library South Australia. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from Flinders University.
We are thrilled to announce Steph Daughtry as the recipient of the 2025 Scotch College Residency.
In partnership with Scotch College, Steph will receive a five-week paid residency within the English Faculty. Aiming to help further develop students’ writing and communication skills responding to creative themes.
During this residency, Steph will be introducing students to personification and embodiment writing, challenging and inspiring students with daily writing focuses.
About the writer:
Steph is an award winning cross-disciplinary artist, producer, director, and writer working predominantly in live performance and installation.
Specialising in collaborative and devised forms of theatre that explore social and environmental impacts, her credits include Brag Drunch (Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2023), The Fish Bowl (Best Theatre and Physical Theatre Award at the Adelaide Fringe in 2022), and Eating Tomorrow (Sustainability Award Adelaide Fringe 2021).
Steph works as an independent freelance artist, as well as in her role as the co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of production company Post Dining, producing award-winning, innovative forms of entertainment and education designed to engage all the senses.
Steph is currently completing her PhD as part of Uni SA Creative exploring the impact of cultural policy on the capacity for artists to engage in professional practice. As part of this research Steph has published in the Journal of Sociology exploring the impact of arts funding, and has previously written for Felt Space as part of their writers program, and published pieces in Fine Print magazine and The Skinny (Edinburgh). Steph looks forward to using her residency to translate her research into smaller digestible pieces that engage with the artistic community at The Mill and wider Adelaide.
The Mill is thrilled to announce Marina Deller as the recipient of the 2024 Writer in Residence.
The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.
About the writer:
Marina Deller is writer, academic, and critic, working and creating on Kaurna Land. Marina has a PhD in Creative Writing (Life Writing) from Flinders University, where they are an award-winning teacher of Writing and Literature.
In their creative practice Marina examines art, culture, (queer) identity, family, love, and loss. They write essays, short stories, poetry, and hybrid works incorporating objects, art, and photography.
Their writing appears in such outlets as The Conversation, Westerly, Voiceworks, Archer, Babyteeth Journal, and InDaily and has been painted on the city streets as part of Raining Poetry in Adelaide. Their short story “Nostos” was shortlisted for the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction 2021, and their essay “Dresses, heavy with water” was highly commended in the AAWP/Westerly Magazine Life Writing Prize 2022.
Marina is also a recent recipient of the Island View Writers’ House Emerging Writer Residency and an active member of the Life Narrative Lab where they curate and run reading events which platform emerging life writers.
The Mill is thrilled to announce Renee Miller as the recipient of the City Mag 2022 Writer in Residence January-June residency.
The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.
Renee Miller is an emerging queer writer and a lifelong resident of Adelaide. Her focus is on creative writing, but she is passionate about all forms of art and writing.
To grow her writing practice, she studied a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing, sub-majoring in Cultural Studies at UniSA.
She went on to complete her honours, combining the knowledge from both of her fields of prior study. She has contributed Writing from Below and UniSA’s Piping Shrike collection.
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The Writer in Residence program is presented in partnership with CityMag
The Mill is thrilled to announce Piri Eddy as the recipient of the City Mag 2022 Writer in Residence July-December residency.
The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.
A grant from Arts SA supports Piri’s engagement with The Mill.
Piri Eddy is an award-winning playwright, writer, screenwriter, and producer living and working on Kaurna country.
His work has been produced for Radio National and published in such places as Westerly Magazine, Island, and Australian Book Review. Piri won the 2020 Jill Blewett Playwrights Award for his one-act play Forgiveness, which premiered at RUMPUS in 2021.
The Mill is thrilled to announce James Murphy as the recipient of the City Mag 2021 Writer in Residence July-December residency.
The Writer in Residence program, in partnership with CityMag, supports emerging writers from a variety of disciplines. The program creates a broader audience for writing through leadership, mentorship and publication.
James Murphy has worked as a South Australian Arts, Music and Gaming Writer for Scenestr- 2015-present, contributed to InDaily, Junkee Media's The Upsider, City Mag's The City Standard, The Serenade Files, Fritz Mag, and Fight News Australia (which is a bit left field, but he likes his cage fighting).
James has written national cover stories for Scenestr, most recently on Megan Washington, interviewed and covered artists and artistic directors from State Opera, State Theatre, OzAsia and more.
The Mill’s Writer in Residence program is focused on fostering arts writing and criticism by emerging arts writers. This year The Mill will partner with Fine Print magazine for writing and editing support and with Scotch College for an additional Writer In Residence educational program.
Each Writer In Residence is provided with a 6 month residency at The Mill in a private studio, with The Mill commissioning three pieces of writing per artist and support them on a personal collaborative project.
Jennifer is writer and artist, having only recently moved to Adelaide / Kaurna country. Currently, she is a lecturer & tutor for the Aboriginal Pathway Program at UniSA. Jennifer studied art and creative writing at UNSW and critical legal studies at ANU. Her writing practice is motivated by the broad question of whether the notion of community - which is currently premised on an exclusive human ‘we’ - can be re-imagined so as to recognise and include ecological agency.
Her upcoming book Rethinking the Animal Rights Movement (Routledge) explores this question from historical and activist perspectives. Her writing has been published in Modern Fiction Studies, Borderlands e-journal and extempore.
