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Writer in Residence 2022: Renee Miller

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 smiles, looking into the distance. She wears glasses and is standing in front of the ocean.

About the writer:

Renee 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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Writer in Residence 2022: Piri Eddy

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 stands in front of a metal wire fence, he has a beard and wears an open jacket.

About the writer:

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. 

Find out more: pirithewriter.com

Twitter: @piri_eddy

Image credit: Johanis Lyons-Reid

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Writer in Residence 2021: James Murphy

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 smiles, he wears a navy suit with a colourful shirt and a red pocket square.

About the writer:

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.

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Writer in Residence 2019: Jennifer Eadie

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.


About the writer:

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.