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Evelyn Araluen won the 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature for her poetry collection The Rot, with judges calling the work "formally bold, emotionally exacting and politically uncompromising." This is one of Australia’s premier state prizes and comes with a significant prize purse.[1]
The same prize announcement highlighted that Araluen also won the $25,000 Prize for Indigenous writing as part of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, underscoring the strong reception of The Rot within Indigenous literary circles.[1]
Araluen is widely recognized as a Bundjalung-Dharug writer and editor, with a career spanning poetry, criticism, and academic work. Her earlier collection Dropbear won the Stella Prize in 2021, establishing her as a leading figure in contemporary Australian poetry.[2][3]
For context on The Rot, early reception describes it as a liturgy for girlhood in late-stage capitalism, exploring themes of Country, violence, and survival, while blending lyric and critique with cultural memory.[3]
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Evelyn Araluen is a poet, teacher and researcher working with Indigenous literatures at the University of Sydney. She won the the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers in 2017 and the Judith Wright Poetry Prize in 2018. Her writing has been published in Overland, Cordite, Southerly and more. Born and raised in Dharug country, […]
writingnsw.org.auThis week we ask Aboriginal Rights activist, Evelyn Araluen, about her short story ‘Museum’ which is published in Landmarks – the latest anthology curated by Spineless Wonders. During this interview we discover her favourite Australian landscape, who inspires her writing and what inspired her latest micro-lit, ‘Museum.’ Tell us about a landmark that is significant to […]
shortaustralianstories.com.auAustralian poems by Australian poets are at the heart of Red Room Poetry, an organisation devoted to creating, publishing and promoting the reading and writing of great new work.
redroompoetry.orgThe Goorie/Koori poet has won the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for her poetry collection The Rot.
www.sbs.com.auEvelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship, and a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant. Born and raised on Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung Nation. Evelyn's debut collection Dropbear won the Stella Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2021...
www.queenscliffeliteraryfestival.com.auEvelyn Araluen is a Bundjalung descendant, born, raised, and writing poetry in Dharug country. A co-Editor of Overland, educator, and researcher of Indigenous literatures, Evelyn’s debut poetry collection DROPBEAR was released with the University of Queensland Press in 2021. Evelyn’s writing has been awarded the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, and the Wheeler Centre Next Chapter. Evelyn recited her poem, Interior Anxious, for our 2021 Winter...
survivorsofsuicide.org.auEvelyn Araluen, author of Dropbear.
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