Deborah Cass Prize
Anneliz Marie Erese
December 20, 2022
Anneliz Marie Erese is a Filipino writer whose works have appeared or are forthcoming in The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Island Online and Cordite Poetry Review, among others. She has previously received writing prizes such as the Nick Joaquin Asia Pacific Literary Awards (2019) and the Deakin Postgraduate Prize in Writing and Literature (2022). She was […]
Nilofar Zimmerman
December 3, 2022
Nilofar Zimmerman is a writer and lawyer living in Sydney. She is currently undertaking a Master of Creative Writing at the University of Sydney and was the runner-up in the 2022 Deborah Cass Prize for Writing. Kaa Girl dangled her legs over the back of the truck and swung them […]
Min Chow
November 29, 2022
Min Chow is an emerging Malaysian-Australian writer and second runner up for the Deborah Cass Prize in 2022. She works, lives and writes on Wurundjeri land. Her work has also appeared in the Life in the Time of Corona anthology and Peril magazine. She is working on her first novel. […]
Independencia by Bryant Apolonio
December 16, 2021
Bryant Apolonio is an award-winning writer and lawyer currently living on Larrakia Country. He won the Deborah Cass Prize in 2021. His fiction has appeared in places like Liminal, Kill Your Darlings and Overland. He is working on a collection of short stories. Independencia Araw ng Kalayaan 1991, the banner read. It’s […]
The Seconds of Holroyd House by Patrick Arulanandam
December 16, 2021
Patrick Arulanandam is a writer and doctor of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage, who lives on Wangal country in Sydney. He spends much his time using the NATO phonetic alphabet to spell his surname for people. He was second runner up for the Deborah Cass Prize in 2021, and a finalist for the Eric Dark Creative […]
On the Tale of the Firebird by Irina Frolova
December 16, 2021
Irina Frolova is a Russian-Australian writer who lives with her three children and two fur babies on the Awabakal land in NSW. She has a degree in philology from Moscow City Pedagogical University and is currently studying psychology at Deakin University. Her poetry has appeared in Not Very Quiet, Australian Poetry Collaboration, Baby Teeth Journal, […]
Birch by Dasha Maiorova
February 16, 2021
Dasha Maiorova is a Belarus-born writer who lives and works on Dharawal Country in Sydney’s southwest. In 2020 she was runner-up for the Deborah Cass Prize, and won the Heroines Women’s Writing Prize for fiction. Her writing has been published in The Big Issue, Voiceworks and Baby Teeth. She writes about books, reading and more […]
‘Alone Together’ by Sahib Nazari
February 12, 2021
Sahib Nazari is a writer of Hazara descent from Afghanistan. He studied creative writing and literature at Griffith University. Other than his mother language Hazaragi, and adopted language English, Sahib is also literate in Dari/Fiarsi and Urdu. He lived in Pakistan for a few years before moving to Australia in 2005. Sahib voices his words […]
‘I am full of love’ by Anith Mukherjee
February 12, 2021
Anith Mukherjee is an artist based in Sydney. He has a brief publication history. He is currently studying film at AFTRS. Anith is the 2020 Deborah Cass Prize Winner. I am full of love Looking for a place to live. Looking for a job. You begin to doubt your […]
Janette Chen
August 8, 2020
Janette Chen is a Chinese-Australian writer from Lidcombe. She is a member of Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement and the 2019 winner of the Deborah Cass Prize. Wall of Men Every time mum starts the car, Teresa Teng starts singing. Mum’s 80s Chinese pop ballads blare from the stereo as we pull […]
Anna Kortschak
August 8, 2020
Anna Kortschak is an emerging writer who is frequently mobile. She has recently returned to Australia after almost twenty itinerant years in the Americas, Europe and the UK. Anna was runner up in the 2019 Deborah Cass Prize for Writing and winner of the 2019 Spring Nowhere Magazine Travel Writing Competition. Her writing and photos […]
Belinda Paxton
August 6, 2020
Belinda is a part-time lawyer, adminstrative assistant and mother of two young boys. She is completing a Master of Creative Writing at the University of Sydney and has published work on-line, in the Grieve Anthology 2018 and in the University of Sydney Student Anthology 2016. ‘On Becoming One’ was runner up in the 2019 […]
Things I Used to Believe by Karina Ko
March 21, 2019
Karina Ko is from Sydney and graduated from a arts-law degrees. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. Photo:David Patson Things I Used to Believe That I shouldn’t go near the dragonflies that hover over our pool because they could […]
Maybe it’s Wanchai by Emily Sun
March 4, 2019
Emily Sun is from Western Australia and has been published in various journals and anthologies including Westerly, Island, Hecate, Australian Poetry Journal, and Growing up Asian in Australia. She is currently working on her first novel Maybe it’s Wanchai? and can be found at http://iamemilysun.com Maybe It’s Wanchai [灣仔]? Tape […]
The Origin of Things by Su-May Tan
January 21, 2019
Su-May Tan is a copywriter and emerging author. She was a recipient of the Varuna Publisher Introduction Program 2018 for a short story collection and was shortlisted for the Deborah Cass Prize 2018 for her novel in progress. Her short fiction has been published in Tincture Journal, Sala Prize and Margaret River Press. She lives […]
Almitra Amongst Ghosts by Rafeif Ismail, winner
December 17, 2017
Rafeif Ismail’s current work aims to explore the themes of home, belonging and Australian identity in the 21st century. A third culture youth of the Sudanese diaspora, her goal is to create works that blend the traditional elements of the arts of her home country with elements of classic and contemporary western arts. She is […]
The Journey Home by Sivashneel Sanjappa, shortlisted
December 8, 2017
Sivashneel Sanjappa is a writer, chef and keen gardener originally from Fiji and currently based in Melbourne. He is currently working on his first novel. His work has been published previously in Verge literary journal. He can be found on Twitter @sivashneel and on Instagram @sivashneel. Questions and Answers For every impossible question […]
Another Country by Jessie Tu, shortlisted
December 8, 2017
Jessie Tu’s poems and scripts have appeared in the Australian Book Review, FishFood Magazine and The Voices Project. Winner of 2016 Joseph Furphy Literary Prize in Poetry, she was shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in 2017. She is recently returned from a workshop in creative non-fiction writing at the Iowa Summer Writer’s Festival, […]