Stu Hatton

Stu Hatton is a writer/editor who lives on Dja Dja Wurrung country, near Castlemaine, Victoria. He’s a member of the Australian Psychedelic Society (APS), contributing to their Goldfields and Melbourne chapters, and has served on the APS committee. He is also a managing editor and moderator for the online harm reducation community Bluelight. He’s been attending EGA since 2008.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts (English, philosophy) from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Arts (communication) from Deakin University. He has taught writing, editing and literature at Deakin and La Trobe University, and has also delivered writing workshops at ConFest and online.

Stu’s work has been published in The Age, Australian Poetry Anthology, Australian Poetry Journal, Best Australian Poems, Best of Australian Poems, Cordite, Overland, Rabbit, Southerly, and Westerly. Stu’s third poetry collection, In the Not-too-distant Present, was published in 2024 by Outer Publishing.

Another of Stu’s passions is psychoanalysis. While many trailblazers within the psychedelic field integrated the psychology of Jung and his break away from Freudian psychoanalysis, Stu feels that the psychedelic community can still derive important psychoanalytic lessons from beyond the Jungian orbit (e.g. Freud, Lacan, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Reich, Marcuse, Fisher, Ruti, the Ljubljana School, et al).

Depending on his mood, Stu may refer to himself as autistic and/or Buddhist. He is the father of three fiercely independent kids. When messing with text, plants, or tech, he inevitably gets into some kind of trouble.

Connect: www.stuhatton.net