Sandra Renew Sandra Renew i(A149546 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

'Sandra’s poetry has recently been published in Griffith Review (Griffith University), The Blue Nib, The Canberra Times, Contemporary Haibun Online, Ribbons, Hecate (University of Queensland), Other Terrain and Backstory (Swinburne University), Axon (University of Canberra), and Australian Poetry Journal 2019. Her poem 'Mungo' was awarded second place in the University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize in 2017.

'Sandra also writes short form prose and has been published in Shuffle: An Anthology of Microlit, edited by Cassandra Atherton (Spineless Wonders 2019), and was a finalist for the 2018 joanne burns Microlit Award.

'She was a featured poet at the National Folk Festival Spoken Word for three years from 2017 to 2019.

'Her recent collections are Acting Like a Girl (Recent Work Press 2019) and The Orlando Files (Ginninderra Press 2018).

'Sandra is a founding editor, with Moya Pacey, of Not Very Quiet online journal for women and poetry and co-hosts the Not Very Quiet women’s poetry nights at Smith’s Alternative. Sandra and Moya were awarded a Canberra Critics Circle Award for their influential contribution to women’s poetry in 2019.' (https://not-very-quiet.com/editors-contributors/sandra-renew/

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 finalist The Joanne Burns Award National category
2022 finalist The Joanne Burns Award
2021 finalist The Joanne Burns Award

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Apostles of Anarchy Kambah : Recent Work Press , 2023 26089481 2023 selected work poetry

'It's the 1970s and 1980s, and Sandra Renew, a young lesbian activist in Far North Queensland, is involved in some of the most politically charged moments in Australian history. From Pine Gap to civil rights marches in Queensland to the first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and beyond, Apostles of Anarchy juxtaposes newspaper headlines and archival material with the personal experience of these struggles. It asks what it is to fight for the acceptance of difference in a discourse of prejudice and hostility.' (Publication summary)

2024 highly commended ACT Notable Awards ACT Literary Awards Poetry
2024 shortlisted ACT Writing and Publishing Awards Poetry
y separately published work icon It's the Sugar, Sugar Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2021 20909006 2021 selected work poetry

'These poems move freely in time from the 1950s to the present day, from the contemporary to memoir, from gender politics to bushfires and floods. They show you jeeps, trucks, girlfriends and cane-cutters, widgies, Singer sewing machines, tattoos and rats and class grudges.

'Sandra Renew uses a range of traditional poetry forms to lay bare some of the gaping fault-lines of gender relations especially as they are experienced by LGBTIQ communities.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 winner ACT Notable Awards ACT Literary Awards Poetry Small Press
y separately published work icon Acting Like a Girl Canberra : Recent Work Press , 2019 15514477 2019 selected work poetry 'Sandra Renew's new poems interrogate the choices made in living and performing gender, sexuality and desire--of struggling to be queer in an Australia of Holden utes and rotting mangoes, XXXX stubbies and Bundy rum, boudoir drawers and country roads, toad princes and wanting to be Wesley Hall. It is a book of not wanting to conform, charting the myriad pressures society places on conformity as a mode of survival. It is a brave, and sometimes funny book, filled with wry and deeply felt images and observations.' 

 (Publication summary)

2020 shortlisted Australian Capital Territory Book of the Year Award
2020 winner ACT Writing and Publishing Awards Poetry
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