Launched in 2020, the Liminal x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellowship is the only writing residency offered specifically to Asian Australian writers on this continent
Liminal x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellowship
Wen-Juenn Lee
Wen-Juenn Lee writes poetry on uncededWurundjeri land. In her writing, she is interested in gaps, leaks, andspillage, which often take the form of place, memory, and the divine. Her workhas been published in Meanjin, Cordite Poetry Review, and Going Down Swinging, among others. Shewas a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and was awarded the Tina Kane Emergent Writer Award. She is working on her debut poetry collection.
Huyen Hac Helen Tran
Huyen Hac Helen Tran is a writer living and working on Gadigal Land. Her work can befound in Liminal Magazine, Meanjin, TheSuburban Review, The Big Issue, and more. She is currently completing a MastersDegree in Literature and Creative Writing at Western Sydney University. She is also the Digital Communications Officer at Sydney Review of Books.
Lucy Van
Lucy Van is a Lockie Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she also teaches literary studies.Her poetry collection, The Open (Cordite 2021), was longlisted for the Stella prize. With Anne Maxwell, her new book is Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views (Anthem 2024).
Panda Wong
Panda Wongis a poet and editor who lives and works on stolen Wurundjeri land, in Naarm. She is also one-half of the music/poetry project lotus threads with musician Hannah Wu. With a focus on collaboration, she works across sound, film, performance, and digital spaces. Her practice explores non-human personhood, interconnectedness, ecological decline, and grief as memory practice. Her first chapbook, 'angel wings dumpster fire', and her first EP, 'salmon cannon me intothe abyss', were released in mid-2022.
Shastra Deo
Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Her second book, The Exclusion Zone (UQP 2023),is a love letter to all gamers.Shastra will use the fellowship and residency at the Hyphenated Projects house to build on the backbone of her next poetry collection, Anatomy of the Sheep.Writing a suite of poems that diffracts sapphics in and around pop culture media through the lens of asexuality, a-spec desire, and a-spec time, Shastra seeks to explore the debts we bear to our entangled relations in this extended now and the yet to be.
Jinghua Qian
Jinghua Qian is a Shanghainese writer living in Melbourne's west, on the land of the Kulin nations. Ey has written poetry,essays, opinion and reportage for Overland, Meanjin, Sydney Morning Herald,SBS, Sixth Tone, The Lifted Brow, Popula, Cordite, and various other Australian and international publications. Jinghua founded people of colour performance night POC THE MIC (2010-2012), was a presenter and producer on 3CR CommunityRadio’s Queering the Air (2012-2015), and currently serves on the board ofAsian-Australian arts and culture magazine Peril and the Maribyrnong CityCouncil Arts Ambassador Committee.