Yannick Thoraval - Writer, Author, Communications Advisor & Consultant

I’m an award-winning writer, teacher, and freelance communications consultant.

I hold a master’s degree in history, a PhD in creative writing, and I teach fiction, creative nonfiction, and communications at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

I’ve written two novels and published nonfiction work in national publications such as The Australian Financial Review, The Big Issue, The Australian, and The Conversation.

My debut novel, The Current, was commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.

My second novel, White Foam, was shortlisted for Hachette Publishing’s Richell Prize and highly commended for the Jim Hamilton Award.

I was also the managing editor of Home Truths: An Anthology of Refugee and Migrant Writing.

Before embracing my portfolio career as a teacher/freelance writer, I worked as a copywriter in marketing and communications, and as a senior communications adviser and speechwriter in the Victorian State Government Department of Premier and Cabinet in Melbourne, Australia.