 |
Marcella Polain | |
|---|---|
 Polain at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019 | |
| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and writer |
Marcella Polain (born 1958) is an Australian-resident poet, novelist and short fiction writer.
|
Marcella Polain | |
|---|---|
| Polain at Perth Festival Writers Week in 2019 | |
| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and writer |
Marcella Polain (born 1958) is an Australian-resident poet, novelist and short fiction writer.
Marcella Polain was born in Singapore and migrated to Australia at the age of two with her Irish father and Armenian mother. [1]
Polain studied Literature and Creative Arts at Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University). For a short while she attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. At Western Australian Secondary Teachers' College (now Edith Cowan University), she took a Post Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education. Polain completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia.
Polain entered the Perth poetry scene in the early 1990s. She was a founding member (along with Morgan Yasbincek, Julia Lawrinson, Tracy Ryan and Sarah French) of Perth's WEB women's readings, which brought guests such as Dorothy Porter and Gig Ryan to Perth. She has been poetry editor for the literary magazines Westerly , Blue Dog , and co-edited Australian Poetry Journal Vol.11 2024 with poet Andy Jackson. She tutored in Writing for 10 years at Murdoch University and University of Western Australia before becoming Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University.
Her first novel, The Edge of the World, based on her family's survival of the Armenian genocide, won the University of Western Australia's Higher Degree by Research Prize for Publications, and was nominated for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional best first book award.
Her poetry has been published internationally and in translation. She has been a recipient of an Australia Council Grant for New Work of Fiction, which resulted in the publication of Driving into the Sun (2019). In 2012, at Edith Cowan University and with visual artist Paul Uhlmann, she co-founded the micropress 'fold editions', dedicated to the creation of hand-made books. She has also worked interdisciplinarily with composer-musicians, dancer-choreographers and other visual artists.
In April 2015, the Armenian translation of The Edge of the World was launched in Yerevan at the Centenary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, also part of the Global Conference Against Genocide. In 2015, Polain was also awarded the International Grand Prize for Poetry by the Academia Orient Occident. [2]
Edith Dircksey Cowan was an Australian social reformer who worked for the rights and welfare of women and children. She is best known as the first Australian woman to serve as a member of parliament. Cowan has been featured on the reverse of Australia's fifty-dollar note since 1995.
Churchlands is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia approximately 8 km north-west of the central business district; it lies within the local government area of the City of Stirling. Churchlands is an expensive suburb with most homes built after the 1980s. Its post code is 6018.
Dorothy Coade Hewett was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed through different literary styles: modernism, socialist realism, expressionism and avant garde. She was a member of the Australian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s, which informed her work during that period.
Hal Gibson Pateshall Colebatch was a West Australian author, historian, poet, lecturer, journalist, editor, and lawyer.
Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels, four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.
Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia.
Peter Balakian is an American poet, prose writer, and scholar. He is the author of many books including the 2016 Pulitzer prize winning book of poems Ozone Journal, the memoir Black Dog of Fate, winner of the PEN/Albrand award in 1998 and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response, winner of the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize and a New York Times best seller. Both prose books were New York Times Notable Books. Since 1980 he has taught at Colgate University where he is the Donald M and Constance H Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the department of English and Director of Creative Writing.
Fremantle Press is an independent publisher in Western Australia. Fremantle Press was established by the Fremantle Arts Centre in 1976. It focuses on publishing Western Australian writers and writing.
Andrew McDonald Taylor is an Australian poet and academic, and a co-founder of Friendly Street Poets in Adelaide, South Australia.
Westerly is a literary magazine that has been produced at the University of Western Australia since 1956. It currently publishes two issues a year, and in 2016 released its first online special issues. The journal maintains a specific focus on the Australian and Asian regions, but has published literary and cultural content from international authors. The magazine publishes fiction, poetry, cultural, autobiographic, and scholarly essays, and interviews.
Peter Holland is an Australian former broadcaster, interviewer and newsreader, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in radio and television news from 1966 to 1998 and then Channel Nine from 1998 to 2003. He then became a senior lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Ken Spillman is an Australian writer based in Perth, Western Australia, whose work has spanned diverse genres including poetry, sports writing and literary criticism. He is best known as a prolific author of books for children and young adults. His output also includes a large number of books relating to aspects of Australian social history.
Anne Therese Morgan is an Australian writer of children's books and plays, and poetry.
Tracy Ryan is an Australian poet and novelist. She has also worked as an editor, publisher, translator, and academic.
Peter Cowan was a Western Australian writer, noted especially for his short stories.
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, known professionally as Natalie D-Napoleon, is an Australian/American singer-songwriter, poet, and writer of creative non-fiction from Fremantle, Western Australia. Through fronting the Perth-based ensemble Flavour of the Month, she was a forerunner in the emergence of alternative country music within Australia and was the winner of the 2018 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize.
Andrew Burke was a contemporary Australian poet.
Dennis Haskell is an Australian poet, critic and academic. He has authored nine collections of poetry, with his most recent works being And Yet… and Ahead of Us. Additionally, Haskell has contributed to literary scholarship, publishing fourteen volumes of literary criticism and literary essays.
Brigid Lowry is a New Zealand author.
Elaine Forrestal is a Western Australian writer of books for children and young adults, including her 1996 book, Someone Like Me.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
