Emma Scully Jones Emma Scully Jones i(A64592 works by) (a.k.a. Emma Jones)
Born: Established: 1977 Concord, Drummoyne - Concord area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Emma Jones undertook her secondary education at MLC Burwood in Sydney, New South Wales. After working in England for one year, she returned to Australia and completed an arts degree at the University of Sydney. She graduated with first class honours and the University Medal in English in 2001. The following year she began study towards her PhD at Cambridge University, England. Her PhD thesis examines the ways maternity and motherhood are represented in poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship
2010 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Six month residency at the Whiting studio, Rome, 1 February 28 July 2011
2007 Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Grants for Emerging Writers $15,000 for poetry writing.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Striped World London : Faber , 2009 Z1584907 2009 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units)
2010 shortlisted Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Judith Wright Award for a Published Collection by an Australian Poet
2010 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2009 winner Anne Elder Award
2010 shortlisted ASAL Awards — Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
2010 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — John Bray Award for Poetry
2009 shortlisted John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
2009 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry
2009 winner Forward Prizes for Poetry — Best First Collection
Zoos for the Dead i "I have two things: a parrot, and a house by the water.", 2005 single work poetry
— Appears in: Sunweight : The 2005 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2005; The Striped World 2009; (p. 45-52) Completely Surrounded : Thirty Years of the Newcastle Poetry Prize 1981-2011 2011; (p. 218-226)
2005 winner The Newcastle Poetry Prize
Fugue, or a Possible Poem 2002 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Unfamiliar Tides : The Newcastle Poetry Prize 2001/2002 2002;
2001-2002 highly commended The Newcastle Poetry Prize
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