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We are all held together by stories and string…

WORDS IN PRINT

Read my INTERVIEW with booktopia

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ART BOOK
Pacific (Good Publishing 2021)

ESSAY
The Writer vs The Distraction Machine (Paradiso Journal Issue 21)

NOVEL
The Inevitability of Stars (MIRA/HarperCollins, 2013)

SHORT STORY
Love is a yellow dog
(Overland Issue 240, Spring 2020)
The Kitchen Table
(Highly Commended: Thunderbolt Prize 2019)
We are not the world
(Hermes 112: Creative Catalogue, 2018)
Laundry Day
(The Quotidian: USYD Anthology, 2018)
The Neck
(The Draft Collective, 2017)

POETRY
Diana
(Longlisted, Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2020)
When are we women (
Grieve Anthology vol.7: Hunter Writers’ Centre 2019)
Rock Star
(Hermes 113: Creative Catalogue, 2019)
King Parrots
(The Lives of Others: Southerly Journal 78.2, 2019)
Brother (Power: 2019 University of Sydney Anthology)
Mate (Power: 2019 University of Sydney Anthology)
Siren (Heroines Anthology: The Neo Perennial Press, 2018)
Moon
(Heroines Anthology: The Neo Perennial Press, 2018)
Fire
(Heroines Anthology: The Neo Perennial Press, 2018)
Words out my Mouth (Grieve Anthology vol.6: Hunter Writers’ Centre 2018)
One Morning (The Quotidian: USYD Anthology, 2018)
The Other Sound of Ivy, Climbing
(Distinguished Writer: Art Ascent Art & Literature Journal August, 2017)
Before Dawn
(Uneven Floor, 2017)

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AWARDS & RECOGNITION

-Recipient: KYD Mentors Program 2023 with Sophie Bishop
-Longlisted: The Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2020
-Highly Commended: Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing 2019
-Shortlisted: The Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency, New Mexico, 2020
-Shortlisted: 2019 USU Creative Awards (The University of Sydney)
-Shortlisted: 2018 USU Creative Awards (The University of Sydney)
-Shortlisted: 2018 Varuna Publisher Introduction Program Fellowship (Varuna House)
-Invited Reader at the inaugural Heroines Festival 2018
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Recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Startup Postgraduate Coursework Scholarship (The University of Sydney)
-Debut novel, The Inevitability of Stars, launched at the 2013 Byron Writers Festival
-One of 6 finalists in the 2012 Byron Writers Festival ‘Pitch Perfect’ Competition

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time slid between branches it's either too fast or too slow this inevitable blossoming dream.

KATHRYN LYSTER | 2018