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Ellen van Neerven (born 1990) is an Indigenous Australian writer and poet. Her first book, Heat and Light, won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers, the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Award's Indigenous Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2015. Her 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, True Stories, in 2015.

Early life

Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents. She studied Creative Writing at the Queensland University of Technology.

Personal life

Van Neerven is a Yugambeh woman. She is openly queer. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Online abuse by students

In October 2017, the poem 'Mango' by Van Neervan from her text Comfort Food (2016) was included as part of a question in the New South Wales High School Certificate English examination. Abusive messages were then posted to the HSC Discussion Group Facebook page criticising the poem and Van Neervan as an author. Van Neervan was also contacted directly by students on her personal social media accounts. A spokesperson from New South Wales Education Standards Authority condemned the abuse as cyber-bullying and stated that the NSW curriculum works to promote tolerance and diversity.

Awards and honours

• 2013: Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for Unpublished Indigenous Writers for Heat and Light
• 2015: Dobbie Literary Award for Heat and Light
• 2015: Stella Prize shortlist for Heat and Light
• 2015: Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist for Heat and Light
• 2016: NSW Premier's Literary Award - Indigenous Writers Prize for Heat and Light
• 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 New South Wales Higher School Certificate .

Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2017)

Short fiction

Collections

• Heat and light, University of Queensland Press (2014)

List of short stories

• Skin, Meanjin Literary Journal
• Wetskins, The Lifted Brow
• S&J, McSweeney's

Poetry

Collections

• Comfort Food, University of Queensland Press (2016)

List of poems

• 'Invisible Spears', Overland Literary Journal (Issue 220)

Anthologies

• Joiner Bay and Other Stories, edited by Ellen van Neerven, Margaret River Press (2017)
• Writing Black: New Indigenous Writing from Australia, edited by Ellen van Neerven, State Library of Queensland (2014)

Critical studies and reviews of van Neerven's work

• Patrić, Alec (Sep 2014). "". Australian Book Review. 364: 48. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)

References

1. ^ jurisdiction=Queensland, ; corporateName=State Library of Queensland;. "2013 winners". qldlitawards.org.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ^ 1414, scheme=AGLSTERMS.AglsAgent; corporateName=State Library of New South Wales; address=Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW 2000; contact=+61 2 9273 (2016-05-16). "Winners announced for 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards". www.sl.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19. {{cite web}}: |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
3. ^ "Shortlist 2015 | The Stella Prize". thestellaprize.com.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
4. "Ellen van Neerven". Programs. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
5. "Shortlist 2015 | The Stella Prize". thestellaprize.com.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
6. "An Interview with Ellen van Neerven |". Sydney Review of Books. 2015-10-23. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
7. "Ellen van Neerven, Writer, (Yugambeh) | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
8. Russell, Stephen A. "Throwing light on queer Indigenous voices". SBS.
9. "UQP - Ellen Van Neerven". www.uqp.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
10. Taylor, Andrew (16 October 2017). "Indigenous poet Ellen van Neerven subject to online abuse by students after HSC English Exam". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 November 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
11. McGowan, Michael (17 October 2017). "Indigenous poet Ellen van Neerven abused by year 12 English students". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 November 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
12. Cockburn, Paige (17 October 2017). "HSC students attacking Mango poem by Indigenous writer Ellen Van Neerven urged to apologise". ABC News. Retrieved 6 November 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
13. Wyndham, Susan (2016-05-13). "The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists awards turn 20". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
14. McGowan, Michael (2017-10-16). "Indigenous poet Ellen van Neerven abused by year 12 English students". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
15. "Skin". Meanjin. 2014-10-03. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
16. "'Wetskins', by Ellen van Neerven | The Lifted Brow". theliftedbrow.com. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
17. "McSweeney's Issue 41". store.mcsweeneys.net. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
18. "Invisible spears". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 2016-11-19.

External links

• Official website

• Indigenous Australian writers
• 1990 births
• Living people
• LGBT writers from Australia
• Queensland University of Technology alumni
• Australian women poets
• 21st-century Australian poets
• 21st-century women writers