John A. Scott will be the featured reader at Chamber Poets #90, 8th July 1pm - 4pm Woodend RSL. PLUS: Open Section and resident band Black Forest Smoke.

John A. Scott is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose. His works have been published in the USA and the UK and have been widely translated. He has received Victorian Premier's prizes for both poetry (St Clair, 1986) and fiction (What I Have Written, 1994).

The film version of What I Have Written (dir. John Hughes), for which he wrote the screenplay, was selected for Competition at the 1996 Berlin and Stockholm Film Festivals and was winner of the International Mystery Film Festival in Bologna. The script received an AFI nomination and an AWGIE award for best screenplay adapted from another source. His Selected Poems (1968-90) appeared in 1995.

His novel Before I Wake, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Victorian Premier's Prize. His subsequent novel, The Architect, was shortlisted for the 2002 Biennial Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Fiction, and the Miles Franklin Award. Warra Warra, a ‘ghost story’ parable of the white invasion of Australia, was published in 2003.

A major experimental novel, N, was published by Brandl & Schlesinger in April, 2014. Scott is currently working on a book-length poem, The Barbarous Sideshow, which resurrects an abandoned project dating from 1967-68. Picaro Press is to publish Early Sonnets which contains a number of his works from this period.

He was winner of the 2013 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the 2014 David Harold Tribe Award for Fiction. N was shortlisted for the 2015 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction and is one of the Guardian's Books of the Year.