Bundanon

Emily Brewin is a Melbourne-based author and educator. She has been awarded an Australian Society of Authors Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Mentorship for her fiction writing and has been shortlisted for Hachette Australia’s Manuscript Development Program and Varuna’s Publisher Introduction Program. Her short stories have been shortlisted ofr a number of literary awards, including the 2017 Bristol Short Story Prize, Alan Marshall Short Story Award, Overland’s Fair Australia Prize and the Elyne Mitchell Writing Awards.

Whilst in residence at Bundanon, Brewin worked on the development of her third novel, The Piano, which explores the connections between mental illness and homelessness.