Paul Dawson (born 1972) is an Australian writer of poetry and fiction and a scholar in the fields of narrative theory and the study of creative writing.
Dawson was part of the university's narrative research lab, a project which investigates "...narrative in various media and art forms; its forms, techniques and voices, its cross medial potential and its relations to different cultural discourses.
"[3] His poems have appeared in anthologies such as Contemporary Asian Australian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann, 2013), The Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology (2016), and Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788-2008 (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009).
He has published short stories and poems in journals and newspapers, including: Meanjin, Island, Southerly, Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, Mascara Literary Review, Snorkel, Slope (a US journal), Australian Poetry Anthology, The Sleeper's Almanac, Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, Imago: New Writing, and The Sydney Morning Herald.
His book The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-first Century Fiction was published by OSU Press, 2013.