The 2024 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellows

We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2024 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships:

Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn is a writer living in Tasmania. Her criticism has appeared in journals such as Meanjin, Rabbit, Cordite, and the Sydney Review of Books. Her essays and stories have won the Scribe Nonfiction Prize and the Ultimo Prize for Young Writers. She edits for Mascara Literary Review and is the previous editor of Voiceworks magazine. She is currently working on a novel about music, gambling and psychosis with the support of Arts Tasmania.

Monique Grbec is a writer, critic and multidisciplinary artist living in Naarm. A child of the Stolen Generations, they are interested in First Nations knowledge systems, and the struggle to decolonise. They currently work in arts administration, create Waa using upcycled metals, and review books for The Saturday Paper.

Reuben Mackey is a PhD candidate at Monash University where he writes about metafiction in Australian literature. His work has previously appeared in Antipodes, Meanjin, The Conversation, and TEXT.

Terri Ann Quan Sing writes poems and writes about poems. You can read her criticism in print and online in Meanjin, Mascara, Liminal, The Lifted Brow, and Sydney Review of Books. 

Amelia Zhou is a writer and PhD student in English at Cambridge University. Her work as a writer is often interdisciplinary and hybrid in form and media, and has appeared most recently in Fence, Liminal, and Orleans House Gallery. Her book Repose, which weaves together poems, fiction, and lyric essay, was awarded the 2022 Wendy’s Subway Book Prize and will be published in late 2024. 

We received a record number of applications this year, making it the most competitive round of the fellowship to date. As a result, we have decided to award five rather than four fellowships as we had initially advertised. We would like to thank all the applicants for their submissions (and for some excellent pitches) and the external judges – Harriet McInerney and Prithvi Varatharajan – for their time, commitment, and expertise.

We are excited to get to work with this brilliant cohort of critics on new essays on Australian literature in the year ahead. The Emerging Critics Fellowship remains one of the SRB’s core programs and we will be running it again next year with the renewed support of our funding partner, the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.