Jock Serong

Jock Serong is the award-winning author of seven novels, most recently Cherrywood. He is the founding editor of Great Ocean Quarterly, and has written non-fiction for outlets ranging from The Monthly and The Guardian to Surfing World, Rolling Stone, The Age/SMH, Meanjin, the ABC and more. 

He has a PhD in Creative Writing and is a Board member of Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. Jock also writes for screen, works with judges through Australia’s judicial colleges and mentors emerging writers.

Jock lives in Port Fairy, on Victoria’s far south-west coast dividing his time with stints on Flinders Island, in the Furneaux group in eastern Bass Strait.

Jock will be joining our special cruise literary retreat departure Frozen Chapters in November 2026.