Writing
—January 2025, byline in The Guardian newspaper ‘The Moment I Knew‘ series.
—December 2024, my two poems, ‘Burns’, and ‘Butcher Shop in 17 Parts’ were published in Oystercatcher one 101 poems anthology by 5 Islands Press.
—December 2024, my essay, ‘Beneath these surfaces (under my skin), ‘ was published in Antipodes Journal 36.2.
In November 2024, ‘Read as a Boy’ was shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Awards in the nonfiction category.
—October, 2024, ‘Our unmoored selves’ was highly commended/honourably mentioned in the AAWP/Westerly Life Writing Prize.
—July, 2024, ‘Read as a Boy‘ was shortlisted and later awarded second prize in Portside Review, Human Rights Essay Prize.
—May, 2024, ‘A Gathering’ published in Nitro Creative Matters: How Life Gets In
—March, 2024, ’50 Fragments’ published in Island Mag 170.
—December, 2023, ‘Our Unmoored Selves’ shortlisted in the Memoir section of the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing.
—May 2023, ‘Beneath these surfaces (under my skin)’ Honourable Mention in the AALS (American Association of Australian Literature) Fiction and nonfiction prize 2023.
—March 2023, ‘Telephone and Address Book‘ won Geelong Regional Libraries/Deakin Universities’ inaugural The Local Word Prize from almost 600 entries.


—November 2022: lyric essay, ‘In our waters’, in Plants & Personalities, published by Arts Mansfield, (print only), 2022. Runner-up memoir in “Bushy Tales” 2022 competition. Judge Sandy Fairthorne’s feedback: ‘After much deliberation, I have granted second prize to In our Waters, a beautifully written account of one family’s mysterious link with drownings over generations. It was poetic, dark and gripping, with a quiet strength reminiscent of Helen Garner.’

—November 2022: lyric essay, ‘Incomplete archive of blue,’ in Twenties, The Slow Canoe, (print only), 2022



—November 2022: poem: ‘Triptych / Lament’ in Resilience, a celebration of poetry, fiction and essays, from Mascara Literary Review, published by Ultimo Press (print only), 2022


—Interview, ‘It’s no gift to have this kind of knowledge’: Indigo Perry in conversation with Dani Netherclift, in Cordite: OPEN, eds Jo Langdon and Cameron Lowe, 2022.
—2022: poem: ‘Extremities’ in Cordite: OPEN, eds Jo Langdon and Cam Lowe.

—lyric essay: ‘When alive, my brother bore no resemblance to mermaids, Westerly 67.1, 2022
—lyric essay: ‘When alive, my brother bore no resemblance to mermaids, Westerly 67.1, 2022

—lyric essay: ‘Damage reports,’ in Island (print), 2022

—review: of Sofie Westcombe’s Timestamps, Plumwood Mountain Journal, 2022
—poetry: ‘Siren fires for August, in Bluebottle Journal, 2021
—poetry: ‘Anchors by night,’ commended in Mansfield Art’s Council’s Bushy Tales and published in Stones and Water (print)
—poetry:, ‘Rivers’, in Plumwood Mountain Journal Embodied Belonging, towards an ecopoetic lyric 2021
—review: of Kerrie Shying’s Know your country, Mascara Literary Review, Issue 26 2021
—poetry: ‘Night trains,’ in Rabbit 33 (print)

—poetry: ‘Gateways,’ Stilts Journal, Issue 9, 2021

—poetry: ‘Butterflies,’ in Recent Works Press anthology What we carry (print), 2021

—poetry: ‘Mountain Moons’ published in Meniscus Literary Journal Volume 9, Issue 1 2021
—lyric essay: ‘An incomplete archive of blue,’ winner of the AAWP/The Slow Canoe Creative Nonfiction Prize, 2020.
—microfiction: ‘Phoenix,’ Winner of Queenscliffe Writer’s Festival inaugural Microfiction Competition, 2020.
—lyric essay: ‘Time after time’, published/recorded The Slow Canoe Lockdown 2020 Audio Project 2020.
—poetry: ‘Vessels’ in Swamp Journal 2020
—poetry: ‘Ravening’ published in Meniscus Literary Journal Volume 8, Issue 2, 2020
—poetry: ‘Gently green’ published in Verity la 2020
—poetry: ‘lifelines/deep white’ in Otoliths 58 Southern Winter 2020.
—poetry: excerpt from ‘Colours’ as part of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Writing’s Raining Poetry in Adelaide installation, August 2020.
—prose poetry: ‘Haunted Autumn’ in collaboration with Jo Langdon and Mascara Literary Review for Emerging Writers Festival’s e/merge magazine 2020.
—essay: ‘One fine day,’ in Meanjin Quarterly, Volume 78, No 4, Summer 2019.

—poetry: ‘Tomato’ in Cordite Poetry Review, Monster, 2019.
—short story: The drowned land, Verandah Journal 33, 2018 (print).

—essay: ‘Red Flags’ in Unum Magazine, 2017.