Kim Kelly
Kim Kelly is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. Her first memoir, Touched: A small history of feeling, won the 2025 Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Prize for non-fiction. Kim is also…
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Kim Kelly
Kim Kelly is the author of 13 long-form fictions, including bestsellers, The Blue Mile, and Her Last Words. Her historical novella, The Rat Catcher: A Love Story, was shortlisted for Viva La Novella and longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize. Her short stories have been shortlisted in The Hope Prize and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize (Overland), too. And Kim’s latest fiction, Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room, won the 2023 Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Prize for fiction, and her first memoir, Touched: A small history of feeling, won the 2025 Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Prize for non-fiction.
A book editor of almost 30 years’ experience too, she’s better known in the margin notes there as Kim Swivel. She holds a Master of Creative Writing from Macquarie University, for which she earned the Faculty of Arts Fred Rush Convocation Prize for writing, and she’s currently completing a Creative Writing PhD in Australian fiction there. Her academic research interests include historical fiction, Australian fiction, representations of minoritised Others in our fictions, and the effects of AI on the way we read and write them.
Kim lives and works on Gadigal and Wiradjuri lands, in Sydney and Central West, New South Wales.
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BOOK LAUNCH: Living with Illness and Disability: Poised on the Pointe of Pain
DATE March 28 TIME 11:30 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Book nowBY THE ARTIST
