Want to know where the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers can lead? Here are some bios of past winning and highly commended entrants.
Drew Rooke is a Sydney-based non-fiction writer whose work deals with contemporary political and cultural issues and trends. His work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, Voiceworks, Junkee, and the Sydney Morning Herald, among others. He works part-time as a bush regeneration ranger and part-time as a writer. Scribe has recently acquired a nonfiction book by Drew which will be his debut, provisionally titled The Final Spin: the power and peril of Australia’s relationship with poker machines.
Briohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and academic. She has published in The Lifted Brow, Overland, Going Down Swinging and Meanjin, among others, and performed as part of the Sydney Festival and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Her first book of nonfiction, Adult Fantasy (to be published by Scribe in 2017), will explore the cultural underpinnings of adulthood. Her debut novel features multiple disaster sequences and will be published by The Lifted Brow in August 2016. She splits her writing with teaching at various universities.
Oliver Mol is a Sydney-based writer. A former writer at The Adventure Handbook and fiction editor at Voiceworks, he grew up between America and Australia, and has lived in Houston, Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. He was the recipient of a Hot Desk Fellowship and an ArtStart grant, and was the co-winner of the 2013 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers. He has appeared at the Melbourne, Sydney, Emerging, and National Young Writers’ festivals, as well as various US literary festivals. His debut book, Lion Attack!, was published in May 2015 and attracted praise from Maxine Beneba Clarke, Lindsay Hunter, Benjamin Law, Luke Ryan, Margo Lanagan and Dennis Cooper (a ‘Best Book of 2015’), among others, with Rolling Stone terming him ‘king of a new jungle’.
Rosanna Stevens grew up in the Blue Mountains, and is currently is studying a PhD at ANU, where she works as a research officer in the School of Music. A former intern with McSweeney’s, her writing has appeared in Meanjin, Griffith Review, Going Down Swinging, Voiceworks, Seizure, The Big Issue and Sleepers Almanac. Rosanna was highly commended for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and the Yen Magazine Short Story Competition, and awarded Best Poem in an Express Media Publication. She was also runner-up and people’s choice in the Trans-Tasman Three-Minute Thesis competition.
Patrick Mullins is a lecturer at the University of Canberra. The winner of the 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, he’s completed his PhD in political biography, and his work appears in various publications. He was also a former editor of literary magazine Burley.
The 2015 ACT Young Woman of the Year, Zoya Patel is the founding editor of Feminartsy and former Editor-In-Chief of Lip Magazine. She was Highly Commended in the 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and was the 2014 recipient of the Anne Edgeworth Young Writers’ Fellowship. She is also Corporate Relations and Advocacy Manager at YWCA Canberra, a feminist, not-for-profit organisation that provides community services and represents women’s issues.
Robbie Arnott is a writer from Tasmania whose work has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Island, The Lifted Brow, and The Review of Australian Fiction, among others. By day he works as a copywriter at Red Jelly. He won the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and the 2015 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Awards Young Writers Fellowship, and was a runner-up in the 2014 Erica Bell Foundation Literature Award.