Professor Kim Wilkins
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Kim Wilkins

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Background

Kim Wilkins is a recognised expert on storytelling, popular literature, and the publishing industry. She is the author of more than 30 full-length works of fiction, and her work is translated into more than 20 languages globally. Her scholarly research centres on creative communities, such as writing groups and fan cultures. She is most recently the author of Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture (with Beth Driscoll and Lisa Fletcher), which outlines a new theory for understanding popular fiction through its related industrial, social, and textual pleasures and processes.

Kim is also passionate about working with partners and has recently undertaken funded research on technology foresight with the Commonwealth Department of Defence, and with a series of regional councils for the Linkage Project 'Community Publishing in Regional Australia'. Since 2019, she has served a range of leadership roles, including in the HASS Office of the ADR, and the UQ Graduate School. She is Academic Director of the newly established Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing.

Availability

Professor Kim Wilkins is:
Not available for supervision
Media expert

Fields of research

Literary studies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Research), The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Creative practice

  • Popular fiction

  • Publishing and book culture

  • Storytelling, creativity, and the imaginaton

Search Professor Kim Wilkins’s works on UQ eSpace

78 works between 2000 and 2024
All (78) Journal Article (20) Book Chapter (11) Conference Publication (1) Book (5) Other Outputs (41)

1 - 20 of 78 works

Featured

2024

Journal Article

Stories and systems: exploring technological impact in complex systems through creative writing techniques

Wilkins, Kim, Ivanova, Ksenia, Marshall, Helen, Bennett, Lisa and Anderton, Joanne (2024). Stories and systems: exploring technological impact in complex systems through creative writing techniques. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 209 123800, 123800. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123800

Stories and systems: exploring technological impact in complex systems through creative writing techniques

Featured

2024

Book Chapter

Three new myths for inspiration

Wilkins, Kim (2024). Three new myths for inspiration. The scholarship of creative writing practice: beyond craft, pedagogy, and the academy. (pp. 9-22) edited by Marshall Moore and Sam Meekings. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.

Three new myths for inspiration

Featured

2023

Journal Article

Story thinking for technology foresight

Marshall, Helen, Wilkins, Kim and Bennett, Lisa (2023). Story thinking for technology foresight. Futures, 146 103098, 103098. doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2023.103098

Story thinking for technology foresight

Featured

2022

Book

Genre worlds: popular fiction and twenty-first-century book culture

Wilkins, Kim, Driscoll, Beth and Fletcher, Lisa (2022). Genre worlds: popular fiction and twenty-first-century book culture. Amherst, MA United States: University of Massachusetts Press.

Genre worlds: popular fiction and twenty-first-century book culture

Featured

2021

Book

Writing bestsellers: love, money, and creative practice

Wilkins, Kim and Bennett, Lisa (2021). Writing bestsellers: love, money, and creative practice. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108663724

Writing bestsellers: love, money, and creative practice

Featured

2019

Book

Young adult fantasy fiction: conventions, originality, reproducibility

Wilkins, Kim (2019). Young adult fantasy fiction: conventions, originality, reproducibility. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108551137

Young adult fantasy fiction: conventions, originality, reproducibility

2023

Other Outputs

What IF Consortium reports: envision, engage, empathise, inhabit

Anderton, Joanne, Marshall, Helen and Wilkins, Kim (2023). What IF Consortium reports: envision, engage, empathise, inhabit. Brisbane, QLD Australia:

What IF Consortium reports: envision, engage, empathise, inhabit

2023

Journal Article

Support, Structure and Speed: Key Concepts for the Digital Delivery of Creative Foresight Workshops

Marshall, Helen, Wilkins, Kim, Bennett, Lisa, Ivanova, Ksenia and Anderton, Joanne (2023). Support, Structure and Speed: Key Concepts for the Digital Delivery of Creative Foresight Workshops. Journal of Futures Studies.

Support, Structure and Speed: Key Concepts for the Digital Delivery of Creative Foresight Workshops

2023

Book Chapter

Australian fantasy, crime and romance fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Driscoll, Beth and Wilkins, Kim (2023). Australian fantasy, crime and romance fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel. (pp. 540-556) edited by David Carter. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009090049.033

Australian fantasy, crime and romance fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

2023

Journal Article

Calibrating possibility

Wilkins, Kim, Bennett, Lisa and Marshall, Helen (2023). Calibrating possibility. Possibility Studies & Society, 1 (1-2), 275386992311664-235. doi: 10.1177/27538699231166486

Calibrating possibility

2023

Other Outputs

Project Ursula speculative fiction techniques for technology foresight: facilitator handbook

Marshall, Helen, Wilkins, Kim, Bennett, Lisa, Anderton, Joanne and Ivanova, Ksenia (2023). Project Ursula speculative fiction techniques for technology foresight: facilitator handbook. Brisbane, QLD Australia: What If Lab; The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/c6a0989

Project Ursula speculative fiction techniques for technology foresight: facilitator handbook

2023

Other Outputs

Web 3.0 technology impacts and future scenarios

Anderton, Joanne, Ivanova, Ksenia, Marshall, Helen, Wilkins, Kim, Bennett, Lisa and Scott, Haley (2023). Web 3.0 technology impacts and future scenarios. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Human and Decision Sciences Division, Defence Science Technology Group.

Web 3.0 technology impacts and future scenarios

2023

Other Outputs

The Ursula Project: Conceptual Framework

Marshall, Helen , Wilkins, Kim , Bennett, Lisa and Anderton, Joanne (2023). The Ursula Project: Conceptual Framework. Brisbane, Australia: The What If Lab, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/9a5e903

The Ursula Project: Conceptual Framework

2023

Book Chapter

Genesis

Wilkins, Kim (2023). Genesis. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition. (pp. 97-101) edited by Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires. Waterloo, ON Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Genesis

2022

Book Chapter

Emerging writers/established publishers: a ten-year study of the Hachette Manuscript Development Program

Wilkins, Kim, Marshall, Helen and Tulic, Marina (2022). Emerging writers/established publishers: a ten-year study of the Hachette Manuscript Development Program. Creative writing scholars on the publishing trade: Practice, Praxis, Print. (pp. 19-32) edited by Sam Meekings and Marshall Moore. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003041559-2

Emerging writers/established publishers: a ten-year study of the Hachette Manuscript Development Program

2021

Book

Headstrong girl: how to live a writer's life

Wilkins, Kim (2021). Headstrong girl: how to live a writer's life. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Brain Jar Press.

Headstrong girl: how to live a writer's life

2021

Book

Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction

Rayner, Samantha and Wilkins, Kim eds. (2021). Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction. London, United Kingdom: UCL Press. doi: 10.14324/111.9781787357600

Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction

2020

Journal Article

What can we learn about research narratives from professional storytellers?

Wilkins, Kim and Marshall, Helen (2020). What can we learn about research narratives from professional storytellers?. The STEAM Journal, 4 (2) 11, 1-4. doi: 10.5642/steam.20200402.11

What can we learn about research narratives from professional storytellers?

2019

Journal Article

Do the hustle: writing in a post-digital publishing world

Wilkins, Kim (2019). Do the hustle: writing in a post-digital publishing world. Sydney Review of Books.

Do the hustle: writing in a post-digital publishing world

2019

Journal Article

Viking tattoos of Instagram: Runes and contemporary identities

Bennett, Lisa and Wilkins, Kim (2019). Viking tattoos of Instagram: Runes and contemporary identities. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26 (5-6), 135485651987241-1314. doi: 10.1177/1354856519872413

Viking tattoos of Instagram: Runes and contemporary identities

Current funding

  • 2023 - 2025
    Community Publishing in Regional Australia (ARC Linkage Project administered by The University of Melbourne)
    University of Melbourne
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2022
    The Ursula Project: Speculative Fiction techniques for technology foresight
    Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Defence Innovation Bridge
    The Defence Innovation Bridge Program
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2019
    Genre worlds: Australian popular fiction in the 21st century
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    The AustLit Resource: supporting research in studies of Australian literary and narrative cultures
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    Humanities in the digital age: infrastructure for Australian literary studies, publishing studies, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    Digital humanities practice in Australian literary studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation - Austlit phase 4
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2009
    Reimagining female agency in Australian popular medievalism
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2009
    Medievalism in Australian popular fiction
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Kim Wilkins is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Literature in a Changed Publishing Environment

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Helen Marshall, Dr Leah Henrickson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Honeyeater: A novel method of creative observation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Skye Doherty

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Mechanics of Imagination: Arthur Coghlan and Generative AI in Creative Nonfiction

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Leah Henrickson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Creative writing and the creation of a new Australian novel genre

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Helen Marshall

  • Master Philosophy

    The Remake: Generation Loss Across Iterations of Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The importance of setting when creating relatable narratives for middle grade fiction

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Richard Newsome

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Start with a Bang: The Critical Nature of Perilous Beginnings in Australian Crime Fiction Writing and Publishing.

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Venero Armanno

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Design Fixation and its Impact on Creative Thinking in Primary School Students

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ben Matthews

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Realness of Unreal Things

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Tom Doig, Associate Professor Helen Marshall

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Writing the Speculative Fiction Series

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Natalie Collie

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Professor Kim Wilkins directly for media enquiries about:

  • Bestsellers and book culture
  • Creativity and the imagination
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Popular fiction
  • Writing and publishing

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