About

Emilie Collyer writes across and between poetry, performance and prose.

Her work mines the intersection of the personal, the existential and the socio-political and she is interested in bringing different forms into conversation with each other. Emilie’s plays include Contest, Dream Home and The Good Girl which has had multiple international productions. Emilie’s plays have won and been nominated for numerous awards including the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award (London), Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, Green Room Awards, George Fairfax, Patrick White and Malcolm Robertson. Emilie is currently under commission with Red Stitch Actors Theatre and The Street Theatre.

Her debut full-length poetry collection Do you have anything less domestic? (Vagabond Press 2022) won the inaugural Five Islands First Book Prize and she was runner-up in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2024. Her poetry and essays are published across a wide range of literary and scholarly journals locally and internationally.

Emilie works as a dramaturg, text consultant and teacher with artists including Michele Lee and Bridget Mackey and institutions including VCA, RMIT and Writers Victoria. She has just completed her PhD at RMIT where she researched feminist creative practice and where she is now an Adjunct Industry Fellow.

An experienced workshop facilitator, Emilie specialises in generative writing workshops where students - of any age or experience - feel excited about writing and safe to try out new ideas.

Emilie lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri country and acknowledges the traditional owners of the land, and that sovereignity was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

Contact

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