Queer As... Ellen van Neerven

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with award-winning Indigenous author Ellen van Neerven about their literary work and contributions to queer Indigenous art.

Welcome to the first series of the QUEER AS podcast where we’re yarning with queer Indigenous artists and creative practitioners about their work across the public imaginary. For our fourth episode, we're catching up with award-winning Mununjali Yugambeh author, editor, and educator, Ellen van Neerven. EvN‘s first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014; 2023), a novel-in-stories, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. Their first poetry collection Comfort Food (UQP, 2016) won the Tina Kane Emergent Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize. Throat (UQP, 2020) was the recipient of Book of the Year, the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Multicultural Award at 2021 NSW Literary Awards and the inaugural Quentin Bryce Award. Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity (UQP, 2023), a book that weaves history, memoir, journalism and poetry, received the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non Fiction and is available on Turtle Island through Two Dollar Radio . They are the editor of several collections, most recently Shapeshifting: First Nations Lyric…

People in this episode

Host: Sandy O'Sullivan

Guest: Ellen van Neerven

Topics covered

• queer Indigenous artists
• literary awards
• poetry
• memoir
• cultural identity

Keywords

• Ellen van Neerven
• queer Indigenous
• literary awards
• poetry
• cultural identity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Two Dollar Radio

Books & works: Heat and Light, Comfort Food, Throat, Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity, Shapeshifting: First Nations Lyric Nonfiction