Dael Allison
Dael Allison writes and edits poetry, fiction and essays. She has an MA in creative writing (poetry) from University of Technology Sydney, and a PhD in creative writing (fiction) from…
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Dael Allison
Dael Allison has won numerous awards for poetry, fiction and essay, the Varuna Award for an Unpublished novel and the International Wildcare Prize for Environmental Writing. She was awarded three residencies at Varuna and a Wildcare residency at Maria Island, Tasmania. Dael’s MA in creative writing from University of Technology Sydney explored the life and work of Australia’s first modernist artist, Ian Fairweather, and poems from her book Fairweather’s Raft, featured in an ABC Poetica soundscape. Her most recent poetry publication is Blimmin’ Wimmin, A Flying Islands Press pocketbook.
In 2024 Dael was awarded a PhD in creative writing from the University of Newcastle. Her research focussed on how Newcastle and the Hunter Valley have been represented in creative narrative, particularly fiction, theatre and creative memoir, from the period before white invasion, through the convict, colonial and industrial eras to the present. Her creative focus was her book Fig, a short story cycle that embeds real places and events of the region in linked fictions, which will be published in 2026.