Emilie Collyer Emilie Collyer i(A59984 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Melbourne-based author and playwright, usually of work with a speculative-fiction component. Her science-fiction play The Good Girl has been staged in New York, Hollywood, and Florida, and she has also had plays produced for ABC Radio. Her short fiction has been widely published, and she has released two collections through Clan Destine Press.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 commended Ada Cambridge Writing Prizes Poetry for 'Haven'.
2023 highly commended Ada Cambridge Writing Prizes Poetry for 'Coil'.
2020 shortlisted Patrick White Playwrights' Award for 'The Grateful Shade'.

Awards for Works

Lateral Ambling Gait i "Square grey city apartment", 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 170 2024; (p. 8-9)
2024 runner up Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon Do You Have Anything Less Domestic? Newtown : Vagabond Press , 2022 23670069 2022 selected work poetry

'Navigating the world, inheriting the gender of woman, feeling more or less comfortable with that, trying to find the ways in which the word is inhabited and where it slips away; wondering where the domestic bleeds into the public; whose place is where and what are the rules? These questions form the basis of Do you have anything less domestic? The poems within whisper quietly behind closed doors at night; take trips out into daily life with a sharp eye and worried tongue; tease at generalities and assumptions about what a woman’s body of work is, what it does, how it looks, reads and feels. The collection is structured into five sections that each take one of these utterances as their heading (each said to or about the author at one time): Do you have anything less domestic; Don’t write about your family, nobody cares; It's important to keep up weight bearing exercise; You have a nice smile, you should use it more; I hope I won’t put anyone off by saying this is genuinely feminist work. The poems move from the intimate and domestic, through family and social themed works, and out to broader themed pieces that are overtly feminist in how they interrogate language, content and form.' (Publication summary)

2021-2022 inaugural winner Five Islands Press Prize
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