Fiona Hile

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Fiona Hile is an Australian poet, short story writer and literary reviewer.

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Early life and education

Hile studied creative writing in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She graduated in 2001 with an MA for her thesis, The Six O'Clock Swill . [1] [2]

Awards and recognition

Hile's work has been supported by a number of cultural grants, including the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travelling Grant (2000), the Felix Myer Scholarship for Literature (2001) and an Arts Victoria Literature Development Grant (2004). [3] She also received a VicArts Grant from Creative Victoria in 2016 to produce "a book of poems exploring contemporary philosophical ideas about art, mathematics, nature, metaphysics and abstraction." [4]

Hile's poem "Bush Poem with Subtitles" was joint winner of the 2012 Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize. [5] Her poem "The Owl of Lascaux" won second prize in the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize. [6] Judge Peter Minter described her work as "Unique, subtle, exuberant and smart, Fiona Hile's poetry is transformative, a sudden arrest in all the imagination can bear." [7]

Hile won the $30,000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Novelties at the 2014 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. [8] [9] Following that win, Bonny Cassidy, fellow poet and lecturer in creative writing at RMIT University, described her poems as "some of the country’s most exciting avant-garde art-making". [10]

Her most recent book, Subtraction, won the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Award. [11] It was also shortlisted by the Mascara Literary Review in the poetry section of its Avant-garde Literary Awards in March 2019. [12]

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As contributor

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References

  1. ↑ "Hile, Fiona". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  2. ↑ Hile, Fiona (2001), The six o'clock swill , retrieved 25 August 2019
  3. ↑ "Fiona Hile". AustLit. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "Creative Victoria announces new VicArts recipients". Books+Publishing. 19 May 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  5. ↑ "Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize winners 2012". Tasmanian Times. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  6. ↑ "Winners of the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  7. ↑ Hile, Fiona. "Novelties". Hunter Publishers. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "2014 - Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry". State Library of NSW. 14 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  9. ↑ "'Questions of Travel' wins Book of the Year at NSW Premier's Literary Awards". Books+Publishing. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  10. ↑ Cassidy, Bonny. "2014 is a rich and radical time in Australian poetry". The Conversation. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  11. ↑ "Fiona Hile". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  12. ↑ "Mascara announces winners of Avant-garde Literary Awards". Books+Publishing. 26 March 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  13. ↑ Page, Geoff (23 August 2016). "Australian poetry for American readers: what's new and distinctive?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
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