Tenille McDermott
- tenille.mcdermott@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6819-575X- Casual Library Experience Assistant
- Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Biography
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 Griffith Review Online, 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.
Research
Research Interests
Creative writing, literary time, artificial intelligence, large language models, digital humanities, digital creativity.