Writing
Lucy Nelson is a writer of fiction and non fiction living on unceded Dharawal Country. Her work has been published in Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Big Issue, Southword and others. She has received the Newcastle Short Story Award, the Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship and the Templeberg Fellowship from Writers Victoria. She has been shortlisted for the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition, and longlisted for Hachette’s The Richell Prize. Lucy has been a guest panelist at the Bangalore Literature Festival in India, the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Network in Macau, China and National Young Writers Month in Australia. She studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT in Melbourne. She is represented by Martin Shaw at the Books Desk. Her first book Wait Here is forthcoming from Summit Books, Simon & Schuster. You can read more about it here.

Workshop Facilitation
Formerly, Lucy led Word on the Street, a creative writing education and participation program for adults experiencing disadvantage or disability. Word on the Street is one of many amazing programs offered by Upbeat Arts. She also facilitates beginner fiction for adults and kids creative writing workshops.

Events & Programming
Lucy works for the Australian Writers’ Guild as Awards & Events Manager and was the lead producer on the 56th Annual AWGIE Awards. From 2017—2019 Lucy was the Artistic Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. Previously she was co-founder and co-director of Noted Writers Festival in Canberra and co-founder of the Canberra chapter of global dance community No Lights No Lycra. She cut her community arts teeth in the early years of You Are Here Festival, filling empty city spaces with weird and beautiful art, and hosting a community radio show for emerging writers.