Sharleigh Crittenden Sharleigh Crittenden i(27261054 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri
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BiographyHistory

'Sharleigh Crittenden is a Wiradjuri writer, researcher and mother living on Wangal country. Her fiction has been published in The West Australian and Aniko Press. Her short story ‘River Fish’ won the inaugural First Nations Storytelling Prize in the Best Australian Yarn 2023.'

Source: Going Down Swinging.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 shortlisted Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for 'Narrowboats'.
2024 recipient Varuna Fellowships First Nations Fellowship for 'The Children Nobody Wanted'.
2023 winner Magabala Fellowships and Scholarships AIC Creative Grant for fiction manuscript 'The Children Nobody Wanted'.
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