Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen
Notable worksDropbear
Notable awards

Evelyn Araluen is an Australian poet and literary editor.[1] She won the 2022 Stella Prize with her first book, Dropbear. In 2026, she won the Victorian Prize for Literature for The Rot.

Early life

Araluen is an Aboriginal Australian of the Bundjalung people, born on Dharug land.[2]

Career

Araluen's poetry has been published in The Best Australian Poems 2016, Overland, Cordite Poetry Review and Southerly and other literary journals. She contributed a chapter, "Finding Ways Home", to Anita Heiss' Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia.[3]

In 2019 she and Jonathan Dunk were appointed co-editors of Overland, an established Australian literary journal[4] and in November that year were joint recipients of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant.[5] She also won the inaugural Professional Development Award at the 2021 Melbourne Prize.[6]

Her first book, Dropbear was published by the University of Queensland Press in March 2021.[7]

Recognition and awards

After being runner-up in the 2016 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for her poem, "Learning Bundjalung on Tharawal",[8] she won the following year for her short story, "Muyum: a transgression".[9] In 2017 she also won first and third prizes in the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets for "Guarded by birds" and "Dropbear poetics".[10]

In 2018 Araluen received one of the Wheeler Centre's inaugural Next Chapter grants, providing 12 months' mentoring by Tony Birch and a three-day writing retreat at Varuna, The Writers' House.[11][12]

Dropbear won the 2022 Stella Prize[13][14] and was highly commended in the 2021 Anne Elder Award.[15] It was shortlisted for the 2021 Judith Wright Calanthe Award,[16] the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing[17] and the 2022 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.[18]

Araluen's 2025 collection, The Rot, won Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and the overall Victorian Prize for Literature in 2026.[19] It was also shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry that year.[20]

Publications

  • Araluen, Evelyn (2021). Dropbear. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-6318-7.
  • Araluen, Evelyn (2025). The Rot. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-6896-0.

References

  1. ^ "Austlit — Evelyn Araluen". Austlit. Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  2. ^ O'Brien, Kerrie (28 April 2022). "Poet Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 for her 'strange little book'". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  3. ^ Anita Heiss (ed.). "Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia". Austlit. Retrieved 14 June 2024. This work has Reading Australia teaching resources
  4. ^ "Overland appoints Araluen Corr, Dunk as co-editors". Books+Publishing. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Writers Victoria announces latest Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund recipients". Books+Publishing. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Tsiolkas, Araluen, Grills, Clarke 2021 Melbourne Prize winners". Books+Publishing. 11 November 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  7. ^ George, Jeremy (20 January 2021). "Dropbear (Evelyn Araluen, UQP)". Books+Publishing. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Van Neerven wins 'Overland'/Melbourne Uni Indigenous writers' prize". Books+Publishing. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Araluen wins 'Overland' Nakata Brophy short fiction prize". Books+Publishing. 13 April 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Araluen wins 'Overland' Judith Wright Poetry Prize". Books+Publishing. 26 February 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Inaugural recipients of $150k The Next Chapter initiative announced". Books+Publishing. 1 October 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  12. ^ "The Next Chapter mentors announced". Books+Publishing. 29 November 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  13. ^ Wright, Fiona (28 April 2022). "Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: "I was one paycheck away from complete poverty"". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  14. ^ Story, Hannah (28 April 2022). ""An insane honour": Young First Nations poet wins $60,000 prize for women and non-binary writers". ABC News. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award". Books+Publishing. 27 April 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  16. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  17. ^ "VPLAs 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  18. ^ "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 April 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  19. ^ Cain, Sian (25 February 2026). "Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for 'politically uncompromising' poetry at Victorian premier's literary awards". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
  20. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 10 December 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
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