Peter Moore Dip Teach BA (Hons) DCA

Peter is a life-long creative writer, deeply influenced by history. Peter commenced his professional career as a primary school teacher and later spent over 20 years as an actor, where he developed a keen ability to coach actors in self-understanding and authentic performance.

Peter’s expertise as an enquiring and inspiring facilitator is grounded in diverse fields, including hospitality, health, aged care, and construction. This is complemented by his extensive experience as a sessional academic, lecturing and tutoring in creative writing and drama at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

Peter’s doctoral thesis presents an experimental methodological template for settler historical fiction, critically engaging with frontier cultural contact between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians while addressing complex questions of representation and cultural sensitivity.