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{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian writer and poet}}
'''Ellen van Neerven''' (born 1990) is a mango. Her first book, ''Heat and Light,'' won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' ] for unpublished Indigenous writers,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://qldlitawards.org.au/winners/2013-winners|title=2013 winners|last=jurisdiction=Queensland|first=; corporateName=State Library of Queensland;|website=qldlitawards.org.au|language=en|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> the 2016 ] Indigenous Writers Prize<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/winners-announced-2016-nsw-premiers-literary-awards|title=Winners announced for 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards|last=1414|first=scheme=AGLSTERMS.AglsAgent; corporateName=State Library of New South Wales; address=Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW 2000; contact=+61 2 9273|date=2016-05-16|website=www.sl.nsw.gov.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the ] in 2015.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2015/shortlist-2015/|title=Shortlist 2015 {{!}} The Stella Prize|website=thestellaprize.com.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> Her second book, the poetry collection ''Comfort Food'', was published in 2016. One of van Neerven's stories, ''Confidence Game'', was featured in ] podcast series, ''True Stories'', in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/programs/true-stories/podcast/episode-4/confidence-game|title=Ellen van Neerven|last=|first=|date=|work=|newspaper=Programs|access-date=2016-11-19|via=}}</ref>
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'''Ellen van Neerven''' (born 1990) is an ] writer, educator and editor. Their first work of fiction, ''Heat and Light'' (2013), won several awards, and in 2019 Van Neerven won the ]. Their second collection of poetry, ''Throat'' (2020), won three awards at the 2021 ], including Book of the Year.


== Early life == == Early life and education ==
Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2015/shortlist-2015/|title=Shortlist 2015 {{!}} The Stella Prize|website=thestellaprize.com.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> She studied Creative Writing at the ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/writing-editing-an-interview-with-ellen-van-neerven/|title=An Interview with Ellen van Neerven {{!}}|date=2015-10-23|newspaper=Sydney Review of Books|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2015/shortlist-2015/|title=Shortlist 2015 {{!}} The Stella Prize|website=thestellaprize.com.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> and is of the ] of the ].<ref name=jefferson2021/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/ellen-van-neerven-writer-yugambeh/|title=Ellen van Neerven, Writer, (Yugambeh) {{!}} NGV|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119120428/http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/ellen-van-neerven-writer-yugambeh/|archive-date=19 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>


They studied creative writing at the ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/writing-editing-an-interview-with-ellen-van-neerven/|title=An Interview with Ellen van Neerven {{!}}|date=2015-10-23|newspaper=]|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
== Personal life ==

Van Neerven is a ] woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/ellen-van-neerven-writer-yugambeh/|title=Ellen van Neerven, Writer, (Yugambeh) {{!}} NGV|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> She is openly queer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/article/2016/02/19/throwing-light-queer-indigenous-voices|title=Throwing light on queer Indigenous voices|last=Russell|first=Stephen A|date=|website=|publisher=SBS|access-date=}}</ref> She lives in ], Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/Author.aspx/1729/Ellen%20Van%20Neerven|title=UQP - Ellen Van Neerven|website=www.uqp.uq.edu.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
==Writing career==

Van Neerven first book, ''Heat and Light,'' won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' ] for unpublished Indigenous writers,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://qldlitawards.org.au/winners/2013-winners|title=2013 winners|last=jurisdiction=Queensland|first=corporateName=State Library of Queensland|website=qldlitawards.org.au|language=en|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref> the 2016 ] Indigenous Writers Prize<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2016-05-16 |title=Winners announced for 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards|url=http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/winners-announced-2016-nsw-premiers-literary-awards|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160526150952/http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au:80/winners-announced-2016-nsw-premiers-literary-awards |archive-date=26 May 2016 |access-date=2016-11-19|website=State Library of New South Wales}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the ] in 2015.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://thestellaprize.com.au/prize/2015/shortlist-2015/|title=Shortlist 2015 {{!}} The Stella Prize|website=thestellaprize.com.au|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>

Their second book, the poetry collection ''Comfort Food'', was published in 2016. One of van Neerven's stories, ''Confidence Game'', was featured in ] podcast series and True Stories in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/programs/true-stories/podcast/episode-4/confidence-game|title=Ellen van Neerven|newspaper=Programs|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>

''Throat'' (2020) is van Neerven's second collection of poems, and consists of five themed chapters:<ref name=jefferson2021/> "The haunt-walk in"; "Whiteness is always approaching"; "I can't wait to meet my future genders"; "Speaking outside"; and " Take me to the back of my throat".<ref>{{Citation | author1=Neerven, Ellen van | title=Throat |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/238724572| publication-date=2020 | publisher=Trove}}</ref><ref name=throat>{{Citation | author1=Neerven, Ellen van | title=Throat | year=2020 | publication-date=2020 | publisher=University of Queensland Press | isbn=978-0-7022-6434-4}}</ref> ''Throat'' won three prizes at the ]: Book of the Year; the ]; and the Multicultural NSW Award.<ref name=jefferson2021>{{cite web | last=Jefferson | first=Dee | title=Poet Ellen van Neerven wins Book of the Year, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Multicultural NSW Award at NSW Premier's Literary Awards | website=ABC News| publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation | date=26 April 2021 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-27/ellen-van-neerven-book-of-the-year-nsw-premiers-literary-awards/100096796 | access-date=27 April 2021}}</ref>

Van Neerven has also had some of their poetry translated into their grandmother's ] by ].<ref>{{Cite web |last= van Neerven| first= Ellen |title= Gibam Garandalehn (Full Moon) |publisher= The Red Room Company |url= https://redroompoetry.org/poets/ellen-van-neerven/gibam-garandalehn-full-moon/ |date= 2018}}</ref>

Van Neerven published a piece in '']'' about sport, entitled "No Limits", in September 2021.<ref>{{cite journal| last=Neerven | first=Ellen van | title=No limits | journal=]|issue=73 | date=1 September 2021 | url=https://www.griffithreview.com/articles/no-limits/ | access-date=13 May 2022}}</ref> Described as "part creative memoir, part reportage, part theoretical essay and part history lesson", the piece examines the exclusionary nature of sport, which leads to a very low rate of participation by non-binary people.<ref>{{cite web | last=Lewis | first=Samantha | title='No limits': How non-binary First Nations poet Ellen van Neerven is queering sports writing | website=ABC News| publisher= ] | date=12 May 2022 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-11/ellen-van-neerven-is-queering-sports-writing/101032870 | access-date=13 May 2022}}</ref>

In June 2024, text from two of van Neerven's works, titled ''Shoutlines'' and ''yaburuhma dugun (infinite sky)'' were shown on the ] Big Screen, presented as part of 'The Blak Infinite' program at the 2024 ] festival in ].<ref>https://2024.rising.melbourne/program/the-blak-infinite, Retrieved 2024-06-15.</ref>

Their first play, ''swim'', produced by ], premiered at the ] in Sydney in July 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=swim |url=https://griffintheatre.com.au/whats-on/swim/ |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=Griffin Theatre Company |language=en-AU}}</ref>

==Personal life==

They are openly ]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Stephen A |title=Throwing light on queer Indigenous voices |url=http://www.sbs.com.au/topics/sexuality/article/2016/02/19/throwing-light-queer-indigenous-voices |publisher=SBS}}</ref> and ], using ] pronouns.<ref name="about">{{cite web |date=2 October 2020 |title=About |url=https://ellenvanneervencurrie.wordpress.com/ |access-date=22 February 2021 |website=Ellen van Neerven}}</ref>

==Other activities==

In September 2015, in a collaboration with ] in ], a recording of six ] (FNAWN) members reading their work was presented at a special event, which was recorded. Van Neerven was one of the readers, along with ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web | title=First Nations Australia Writers' Network Reading | website=Poets House | date=30 August 2018 | url=https://poetshouse.org/event/first-nations-australia-writers-network-reading/ | access-date=21 February 2021}}</ref>

Van Neerven is co-host and ] of two ]s,<ref name=about/> ''Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times'', launched in June 2020,<ref name="UQP 2020">{{cite web | title=UQP launches a poetry podcast, Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times | website=UQP | date=26 June 2020 | url=https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-launches-a-poetry-podcast-extraordinary-voices-for-extraordinary-times | access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref> and ''Between the Leaves'', launched in October 2020.<ref>{{cite web | title=Launch of Between the Leaves podcast with hosts Ellen van Neerven and Hermina Burns | website=] | date=8 October 2020 | url=https://www.vwt.org.au/launch-of-between-the-leaves-podcast-with-hosts-ellen-van-neerven-and-hermina-burns/ | access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Between the Leaves | website=Victorian Women's Trust | date=26 November 2020 | url=https://www.vwt.org.au/projects/between-the-leaves/ | access-date=22 February 2021}}</ref>


== Awards and honours == == Awards and honours ==
Van Neerven was a recipient of a ], an award of {{AUD|160,000}} given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.<ref name=pastfellows>{{cite web | title=Past Award Recipients | website= Sidney Myer Fund & The Myer Foundation | url=https://www.myerfoundation.org.au/past-award-recipients | access-date=2 November 2022}}</ref>
* 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' ] for Unpublished Indigenous Writers for ''Heat and Light''<ref name=":0" />
* 2015 ] for ''Heat and Light'' * 2013: ] — The David Unaipon Award for Unpublished Indigenous Writers for ''Heat and Light''
* 2015 ] shortlist for ''Heat and Light''<ref name=":2" /> * 2015: ] for ''Heat and Light''
* 2015: ] shortlist for ''Heat and Light''<ref name=":2" />
* 2015 ] Best Young Australian Novelist for ''Heat and Light''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-sydney-morning-herald-best-young-australian-novelists-awards-turn-20-20160506-goojvx.html|title=The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists awards turn 20|last=Wyndham|first=Susan|date=2016-05-13|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
* 2015: '']'' Best Young Australian Novelist for ''Heat and Light''<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-sydney-morning-herald-best-young-australian-novelists-awards-turn-20-20160506-goojvx.html|title=The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists awards turn 20|last=Wyndham|first=Susan|date=2016-05-13|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
* 2016 ] - Indigenous Writers Prize for ''Heat and Light''<ref name=":1" />
* 2016: ] — Indigenous Writers Prize for ''Heat and Light''<ref name=":1" />
*2016: ] for ''Heat and Light<ref name=":22">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2016-09-02|title=Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing 2016 shortlist announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/09/02/66499/victorian-premiers-literary-award-for-indigenous-writing-2016-shortlist-announced/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517043124/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/09/02/66499/victorian-premiers-literary-award-for-indigenous-writing-2016-shortlist-announced/ |archive-date=17 May 2018 |access-date=2020-12-09|website=Books+Publishing}}</ref>''
* 2017: The poem "Mango" from van Neerven's collection ''Comfort Food'' (2016) was chosen as a sample text in the English Paper 1 examination of the ]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/17/ellen-van-neerven-indigenous-poet-abused-hsc-english-students|title=Indigenous poet Ellen van Neerven abused by year 12 English students|last=McGowan|first=Michael|date=2017-10-16|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-10-17|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* 2019: ] — Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards, winner<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://publishing.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/writing-and-publishing/jinghua-qian/winners-announced-for-the-2019-queensland-literary-awards-259209|title=Winners announced for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards|last=Qian|first=Jinghua|date=12 November 2019|website=ArtsHub Australia|language=en-au|access-date=2019-11-13}}</ref>
*2020: ]' inaugural Quentin Bryce Award for ''Throat''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/03/27/148423/__trashed-3/|title=Van Neerven wins inaugural UQP Quentin Bryce Award|date=2020-03-27|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|access-date=2020-03-29}}</ref>
*2020: ], ] for Poetry: shortlisted for ''Throat''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-05|title=Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/08/05/154726/queensland-literary-awards-2020-shortlists-announced/|access-date=2020-08-06|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref>
*2021: ]: shortlisted for ''Throat<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-12-08|title=Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/12/08/160636/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207232220/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/12/08/160636/victorian-premiers-literary-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ |archive-date=7 December 2020 |access-date=2020-12-08|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref>''
*2021: ] Book of the Year; ]; and the Multicultural NSW Award, for ''Throat''<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-03-24|title=NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/24/183931/nsw-premiers-literary-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-25|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324000253/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/03/24/183931/nsw-premiers-literary-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/ |archive-date=24 March 2021 }}</ref><ref name=jefferson2021/>
*2021: ]: shortlisted for ''Throat''<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-06-18|title=ALS Gold Medal 2021 shortlist announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/06/18/188279/als-gold-medal-2021-shortlist-announced/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-01|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618000650/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/06/18/188279/als-gold-medal-2021-shortlist-announced/ |archive-date=18 June 2021 }}</ref>
*2022: ] John Bray Poetry Award: shortlisted for ''Throat''<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2022-01-19|title=2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2022/01/19/208663/2022-adelaide-festival-awards-for-literature-shortlist-announced/|access-date=2022-01-26|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref>
*2024: ] for Indigenous Writing and the ], winner for ''Personal Score<ref>{{Cite news |last=Heath |first=Nicola |date=2024-02-01 |title=Debut poet takes home $125,000 in prize money for a verse novel that almost wasn't published |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-01/victorian-prize-literature-winner-poet-grace-yee-chinese-fish/103414668 |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref>''
*2024: ] — Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance and the Nonfiction Book Award, shortlisted for ''Personal Score''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-01 |title=Queensland Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/08/01/256464/queensland-literary-awards-2024-shortlists-announced/ |access-date=2024-08-24 |website=Books+Publishing}}</ref>

==Selected works==

===Fiction===
* {{cite book |last=van Neerven |first=Ellen |author-mask=2 |title=Heat and Light |year=2014 |publisher=]}}

====Short stories====
* "Skin", '']''<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://meanjin.com.au/fiction/skin/ |title=Skin |date=2014-10-03 |newspaper=Meanjin |language=en-AU |access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
* "Wetskins", '']''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://theliftedbrow.com/post/126379291298/wetskins-by-ellen-van-neerven |title=Wetskins, by Ellen van Neerven {{!}} The Lifted Brow |website=theliftedbrow.com |access-date=2016-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119120135/http://theliftedbrow.com/post/126379291298/wetskins-by-ellen-van-neerven |archive-date=19 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* "S&J", '']''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcsweeneys-issue-41 |title=McSweeney's Issue 41 |website=store.mcsweeneys.net |access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
{{Expand list|date=January 2017}}
===Short fiction===
====Collections====
*{{Citation|title=Heat and light|publication-date=2014|author1=Neerven, Ellen van|publisher=St Lucia, Queensland University of Queensland Press|isbn=978-0-7022-5321-8}}
====List of stories====
* 'Skin', ]. (Short story.)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://meanjin.com.au/fiction/skin/|title=Skin|date=2014-10-03|newspaper=Meanjin|language=en-AU|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
* 'Wetskins', ]. (Short story.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theliftedbrow.com/post/126379291298/wetskins-by-ellen-van-neerven|title=‘Wetskins’, by Ellen van Neerven {{!}} The Lifted Brow|website=theliftedbrow.com|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
* 'S&J', ], issue 41. (Short story.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcsweeneys-issue-41|title=McSweeney's Issue 41|website=store.mcsweeneys.net|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
===Poetry=== ===Poetry===
====Collections==== ====Collections====
* {{cite book |last=van Neerven |first=Ellen |author-mask=2 |title=Comfort Food |year=2016 |publisher=University of Queensland Press}}
* ''Comfort Food'', UQP (2016) {{ISBN|978-0-7022-5405-5}}
* {{cite book |last=van Neerven |first=Ellen |author-mask=2 |title=Throat |year=2020 |publisher=University of Queensland Press}}<ref name=throat />
====List of poems====

* 'Invisible Spears', ], issue 220 Spring 2015. (Poem.)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-220/poem-ellen-van-neerven/|title=Invisible spears|newspaper=Overland literary journal|access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
====Poems====
===Critical studies and reviews of van Neerven's work===
* "Invisible Spears", '']'' Issue 220<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-220/poem-ellen-van-neerven/ |title=Invisible spears |newspaper=Overland literary journal |access-date=2016-11-19}}</ref>
*{{cite journal |author=Patrić, Alec |authorlink= |authormask= |date=Sep 2014 |title= |department= |journal=] |volume=364 |issue= |pages=48 |url= |<!--accessdate=-->}}

===Nonfiction===
* {{cite book |last=van Neerven |first=Ellen |author-mask=2 |title=Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity |year=2023}}

===As editor===

* ''Writing Black: New Indigenous Writing from Australia'', edited by Ellen van Neerven, State Library of Queensland (2014)
*''Joiner Bay and Other Stories'', edited by Ellen van Neerven, Margaret River Press (2017)
*''Homeland Calling: Words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices'', edited by Ellen van Neerven, Desert Pea Media via Hardie Grant Publishing (2020)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1126588713|title=Homeland calling|others=Neerven, Ellen van, 1990-, Baker, Danzal, Pitt, Lakkari.|year=2020 |isbn=978-1-74117-692-6|location=Richmond, Vic.|oclc=1126588713}}</ref>

==Critical studies and reviews==
*{{cite web | title=Heat and Light, Ellen Fan Neerven | website=Readings| date=27 August 2014 | url=https://www.readings.com.au/products/18549479/heat-and-light|first =Tony| last=Birch|author-link=Tony Birch}}
*{{cite journal |author=Patrić, Alec |date=Sep 2014 |title= |journal=] |volume=364 |pages=48 |url= <!--accessdate=-->}}


== References == == References ==
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== External links == == External links ==
* *{{official website|https://ellenvanneervencurrie.wordpress.com}}

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Aboriginal Australian writer and poet

Ellen van Neerven (born 1990) is an Aboriginal Australian writer, educator and editor. Their first work of fiction, Heat and Light (2013), won several awards, and in 2019 Van Neerven won the Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award. Their second collection of poetry, Throat (2020), won three awards at the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, including Book of the Year.

Early life and education

Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents, and is of the Mununjali clan of the Yugambeh nation.

They studied creative writing at the Queensland University of Technology.

Writing career

Van Neerven first book, Heat and Light, won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers, the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Award's Indigenous Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2015.

Their second book, the poetry collection Comfort Food, was published in 2016. One of van Neerven's stories, Confidence Game, was featured in SBS podcast series and True Stories in 2015.

Throat (2020) is van Neerven's second collection of poems, and consists of five themed chapters: "The haunt-walk in"; "Whiteness is always approaching"; "I can't wait to meet my future genders"; "Speaking outside"; and " Take me to the back of my throat". Throat won three prizes at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards: Book of the Year; the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry; and the Multicultural NSW Award.

Van Neerven has also had some of their poetry translated into their grandmother's Yugambeh language by Shaun Davies.

Van Neerven published a piece in Griffith Review about sport, entitled "No Limits", in September 2021. Described as "part creative memoir, part reportage, part theoretical essay and part history lesson", the piece examines the exclusionary nature of sport, which leads to a very low rate of participation by non-binary people.

In June 2024, text from two of van Neerven's works, titled Shoutlines and yaburuhma dugun (infinite sky) were shown on the Federation Square Big Screen, presented as part of 'The Blak Infinite' program at the 2024 RISING: festival in Melbourne.

Their first play, swim, produced by Griffin Theatre Company, premiered at the Carriageworks in Sydney in July 2024.

Personal life

They are openly queer and non-binary, using they/them pronouns.

Other activities

In September 2015, in a collaboration with Poets House in New York, a recording of six First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) members reading their work was presented at a special event, which was recorded. Van Neerven was one of the readers, along with Jeanine Leane, Dub Leffler, Melissa Lucashenko, Bruce Pascoe, and Jared Thomas.

Van Neerven is co-host and creative producer of two podcasts, Extraordinary Voices for Extraordinary Times, launched in June 2020, and Between the Leaves, launched in October 2020.

Awards and honours

Van Neerven was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of A$160,000 given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders.

Selected works

Fiction

Short stories

Poetry

Collections

  • —— (2016). Comfort Food. University of Queensland Press.
  • —— (2020). Throat. University of Queensland Press.

Poems

Nonfiction

  • —— (2023). Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity.

As editor

  • Writing Black: New Indigenous Writing from Australia, edited by Ellen van Neerven, State Library of Queensland (2014)
  • Joiner Bay and Other Stories, edited by Ellen van Neerven, Margaret River Press (2017)
  • Homeland Calling: Words from a new generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices, edited by Ellen van Neerven, Desert Pea Media via Hardie Grant Publishing (2020)

Critical studies and reviews

References

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  39. Homeland calling. Neerven, Ellen van, 1990-, Baker, Danzal, Pitt, Lakkari. Richmond, Vic. 2020. ISBN 978-1-74117-692-6. OCLC 1126588713.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

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