Leni Shilton

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Leni Shilton is a poet, teacher and researcher based in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. [1]

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Biography

Shilton grew up in Papua New Guinea and Melbourne, Australia. She moved to Alice Springs in 1985 to the region to work as a remote-area nurse and health educator but has since taught creative writing at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education. [2] [3] She has also worked at NPY Women's Council as an education researcher. [4]

Shilton's poetry has been included in a number of anthologies, journals and broadcast radio [3] and in 2018, she published her first book Walking with camels: the story of Bertha Strehlow through University of Western Australia Publishing, developed from her creative writing PhD, Giving silence its voice: uncovering Bertha Strehlow's voice through poetry. [5] It was a finalist in the Northern Territory History Book Awards.

Shilton's second book, Malcolm : a story in verse, was published in 2019 and it is set in Melbourne's underbelly and centres around Malcolm, a 17 year old boy, with a difficult and violent upbringing. [6]

Shilton is also a founding member of Ptilotus Press, a community publisher in Alice Springs, which is managed by a collective of local writers. [1]

Awards and honours

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References

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  2. "Leni Shilton". NT Writers' Centre. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Leni Shilton: (author/organisation) | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  4. "Strengthening Community Capacity to End Violence" (PDF). NPY Women’s Council. 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  5. "Strehlow Centre great legacy". www.ntnews.com.au. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  6. SHILTON, LENI (2019), MALCOLM : a story in verse, UWA PUBLISHING, ISBN   978-1-76080-053-6
  7. "Northern Territory Literary Awards - Past winners - Northern Territory Library". ntl.nt.gov.au. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
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