Lucy Nelson

Lucy Nelson is the author of Wait Here. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Sydney Morning Herald and elsewhere.

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Lucy Nelson

Lucy Nelson is an award-winning writer of fiction and part time arts worker living on unceded Dharawal Country. Her work has been published in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Big Issue, Southword and elsewhere. She has received the Newcastle Short Story Award, the Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship and the Templeberg Fellowship from Writers Victoria. She studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT in Melbourne and her first book, Wait Here, was published in 2025.

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The Way We Write

DATE March 28 TIME 4:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X301 Book now

Choice and Circumstance: Bri Lee and Lucy Nelson

DATE March 29 TIME 11:30 am WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book now

BY THE ARTIST

Wait Here

Newcastle Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the festival takes place, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend this respect to all First Nations people attending our festival.

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