Rate My Professor Richard Newsome

Newsome is an award-winning author of nine novels for middle-grade readers, translated and published internationally. His debut, The Billionaire’s Curse, won the inaugural Text Prize for Children’s and Young Adult literature in 2008 and the Esther Glen Medal in 2010. The Billionaire series includes The Crystal Code (2012), The House of Puzzles (2014), and The Curiosity Machine (2016), published by Text Publishing. In 2019, Affirm Press issued the Stella the Unstoppable series: Stella the Unstoppable and the Magic Underpants, Stella the Unstoppable: the Talent Show Fiasco, and Stella the Unstoppable and the School Camp Kerfuffle. He has also published a review of Steve Capelin’s Paradiso in Queensland Review (2023), and articles 'When Nobel met Booker: Dario Fo, Barry Unsworth and one shambolic Italian summer' in The Conversation (2023) and 'Regurgitatus: my year wandering the halls of AI Hogwarts' in New Matilda (2023). As program director and lecturer in courses like WRIT7300 and WRIT7320, Newsome shapes writing education and contributes to the creative writing field through his practice and scholarship.