ABOUT ADAM BYATT
WELCOME TO THE DRUM AND PAGE
Adam is a high school English teacher, writer, occasional artist and sometime drummer living on Dharug Country in Western Sydney. He sifts through the ennui, minutiae and detritus of life and catalogues them as potential story ideas, written on Post It notes and stuck to the wall of his study, The Drum and Page.
The focus of Adam’s writing is on the impact of masculine tropes, stereotypes, and frameworks on the individual and their relationships with themselves and with their partners, friends, and family. He also has an interest in mental health and the dynamic created between the carer and the sufferer. He explores modern day ennui through everyday actions as a prism and a lens to the character’s inner conflict, utilising metaphor to hit the reader with a devastating truth, philosophy or disssection of human nature.
He was a member of the WestWords Academy in 2022, and has conducted creative writing workshops for the WestWords Living Stories competition.
In 2021, was won the Blacktown Local Government Area for the WestWords Living Stories competition Are We Here Yet? and in 2022 won the WestWords Living Stories competition, Things Unsaid. He was successful in winning the Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize from 2022 to 2024, and has served as a judge for the competition.
Adam’s work has also appeared in ZineWest anthologies (winning 1st place in 2023, and 3rd place in 2024, 2025). His short stories have also featured in Stringybark stories anthologies (Crowd Surfing – 1st place, 2024, and in From Eternity To Here, 2025). Other publications featuring his work are Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Tincture Journal, Mounted ARI – Luft Anthology, Flash Fiction Magazine.
Writing for younger readers is another avenue of interest, and Adam’s work has appeared in the NSW The School Magazine (2022, 2023, and 2025) which has been running since 1916.
He also has a long list of other projects to complete so he had better sort them out.
Adam hangs around on Instagram/Threads as @handwrittenpages and the offer of a strawberry milkshake and a doughnut may lead to shenanigans.