Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2024 commended Australian Centre Literary Awards — Peter Blazey Fellowship
- 2023 recipient Varuna Fellowships — Varuna Residential Fellowships for her literary fiction work ‘The Water Takes’
- 2022 shortlisted Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 'Slake'.
Awards for Works
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The First Time I Thought I Was Dying
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
,
2021
21280048
2021
selected work
essay
'We live in a world that expects us to be constantly in control of ourselves. Our bodies and minds, though, have other ideas.
'In this striking debut, artist and writer Sarah Walker wrestles with the awkward spaces where anatomy meets society: body image and Photoshop, phobias and religion, sex scenes and onstage violence, death and grief. Her luminous writing is at once specific and universal as she mines the limits of anxiety, intimacy and control.
'Sharp-witted and poignant, this collection of essays explores our unruly bodies and asks how we might learn to embrace our own chaos.'
Source : publisher's blurb
- 2021 winner UQP Quentin Bryce Award
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