Gayelene Carbis

Gayelene Carbis

Biography

Gayelene Carbis is an Australian-Chinese-Cornish-Irish writer of poetry, prose and plays. Her first book of poetry, ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ
๐˜Œ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ (Five Islands Press) was awarded Finalist – International Book Awards, 2019. In 2022, Gayelene won First Prize, Ros Spencer Poetry Prize; Best Micro Fiction Prize, SF3 Festival; Finalist, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writingโ€“Poetry; and was recently Highly Commended, Woorilla Poetry Prize. Other recent awards: Second Prize, Newcastle Poetry Prize 2021; and 2020โ€“2021, First Prize, My Brother Jack Poetry Award; Highly Commended/Commended, Ada Cambridge, My Brother Jack, and Yeats Poetry Prizes; and Finalist, Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize. Gayeleneโ€™s second poetry collection, ๐˜ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜™๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ (Puncher and Wattmann) was published in 2022. Gayelene is currently working on a collection of stories.

All sessions by Gayelene Carbis

Lines at Lunchtime

17 Jun 2023
12:45 pm - 1:15 pm
The Hub
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