Ian Irvine (Hobson) is an Australian fiction writer, poet/lyricist, nonfiction writer, editor and writing teacher living in central Victoria. The author of four books, his writings have been published online and in print since the late 1990s. As an editor he co-edited seven editions of one of Australia’s first online literary/arts journals, The Animist (1998-2001) and co-edited both Scintillae 2012 (an anthology of writings by over 60 central Victorian writers) and Painted Words (twelve editions). He has taught writing and editing subjects at Bendigo TAFE since 1999 and coordinated the program between 2003 and 2018. His multi-platform project, Songs of the Interstitium, is currently unfolding as a transmedia exploration of tropes arising out of the New Sciences. Book 1, The City of Quartz (a novel), was published in 2016 and three more novels are planned.
Since 2018, 102 of Ian’s alternative rock songs (i.e., nine albums), have been professionally produced by the Australian band 'Interstitium', and around 50 of those songs have been played on rotation at dozens of radio stations around the world. In the early 1990s, Ian co-founded, fronted and co-wrote over 30 songs for the first incarnation of the alternative rock band Goya’s Child (Original) (now acting as the solo memorial project: ‘Ian Irvine Solo’).
Along with Dr Sue King-Smith, Ian also co-founded the Zoetics Institute - an organisation promoting the role of 'fundamental creativity' in the lives of individuals and in society generally. In the 1990s he taught Medieval History (alongside Australian author and historian Sara Douglass/Sara Warneke) and Sociology at La Trobe University (Australia), and also taught various Creative Writing subjects at Victoria University (Melbourne) between 2012 and 2018. Holding a PhD in Human Relations (gained 1998), he has published and presented many talks on a range of Writing, Creative Arts and Humanities topics over the years.
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Australian Writing and Rock Music affiliation: vocals, lyricist.
