Paul Mitchell

Paul is an award-winning Melbourne-based author, copywriter, and editor.

He’s written books and for stage and screen. And he’s written for brands such as Crumpler, Madman Entertainment, and the AFL.

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Listen to an interview with Paul about Matters of Life and Faith

Listen to an interview with Paul
about Matters of Life and Faith

Explore some of Paul's career highlights

AFL Dynasties

Paul co-wrote Actions to Live By for the AFL

We. Are. Family.

“Mitchell is a terse and observant writer, as alive to the particulars of Aussie idiom and experience as Tim Winton, but less showy” – The Age

Australian Sports Museum

Paul wrote the script for Shane Warne’s hologram exhibition at the Australian Sports Museum, MCG.

VALGS

Paul re-wrote and edited the Victorian Government’s Victorian Aboriginal and Local Government Strategy.

Freelance journalism

Paul published this article in The Guardian about joining his son’s music appreciation group.

AFL Dynasties

Paul co-wrote Actions to Live By for the AFL

We. Are. Family.

“Mitchell is a terse and observant writer, as alive to the particulars of Aussie idiom and experience as Tim Winton, but less showy” – The Age

Australian Sports Museum

Paul wrote the script for Shane Warne’s hologram exhibition at the Australian Sports Museum, MCG.

VALGS

Paul re-wrote and edited the Victorian Government’s Victorian Aboriginal and Local Government Strategy.

Freelance journalism

Paul published this article in The Guardian on joining my son’s music appreciation group.

Testimonials

“It’s calming and heartening to watch a father quietly sift his daily life for what is sacred.” – renowned Australian author Helen Garner on my book, Matters of Life and Faith.

“[D]omestic fiction that is at once panoramic and suffocating. It is in equal parts reminiscent of Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap and Tim Winton’s The Turning.” – four-star review of my novel,We. Are. Family., in Books+Publishing magazine.

"This is rugged, strong writing with tonnes of character. It’s for people who think life hurts, rewards, bends, breaks and redeems." – Martin Flanagan, former senior writer at The Age, on my short story collection, Dodging the Bull.

“His poetry wears both halo and beanie . . . His poems are threaded with the spiritual, the ethereal and the very guts of life . . . considered, precise and completely compelling.” – alicia sometimes, ABC broadcaster and Outersanctum podcaster.

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Paul is an award-winning Melbourne-based author, copywriter, and editor. He’s written for stage and screen. And he’s written for brands including Crumpler, Madman Entertainment, and the AFL.

Author photography by Hamish John Appleby.

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