Tenille McDermott

Tenille McDermott is a PhD candidate in creative writing exploring the intersection between time, narrative, and machine-generated text. She is the co-editor of Sūdō Journal, and her creative work has been published in Meniscus, Jacaranda Journal and Antler Velvet Arts Magazine. She was the recipient of a 2025 Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre Fellowship and longlisted for the 2025 AAWP/Westerly Life Writing Award.

Tenille has conducted interviews and moderated panels with a range of Australian writers, including Tim Winton, David Malouf, Anna Funder, Trent Dalton and Pip Williams. She is currently co-hosting and co-producing Edits & Annotations, a podcast sponsored by the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing.