Maya Linden

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Poetry - Essay - Fiction

Just between us

Australian Women Writers Tell the Truth About Friendship

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Mothers and Others

Australian Women Writers on Why Not All Women Are Mothers and Why Not All Mothers Are the Same

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not keeping mum

Australian Writers Tell the Truth About Perinatal Anxiety & Depression in Fiction, Poetry & Essay100% of profits from the sale of this book go to PANDA - Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia

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Selected publications

BOOKSMay 2020: Not Keeping Mum: Australian Writers Tell the Truth About Perinatal Anxiety & Depression in Fiction, Poetry & Essay, Blurb, Australia (fundraising anthology for PANDA - Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia)May 2015: Mothers and Others: Australian Women Writers on Why Not All Women Are Mothers and Why Not All Mothers Are the Same, Pan Macmillan, AustraliaMay 2013: Just Between Us: Australian Women Writers Tell the Truth About Friendship, Pan Macmillan, AustraliaBOOK CHAPTERSDecember 2012: ‘Desire and its Disastrous Results’: Re-examining Representations of Feminine Masochism in Women’s Writing, Sexuality and Contemporary Literature, Cambria, New YorkJOURNAL ARTICLES‘A Kind of Craziness: Interview with Susanna Moore on Women, Writing, Sex and Feminism’, Writers in Conversation, Vol.1, Issue 1, February 2014‘Metaphors of war: Desire, Danger and Ambivalence in Anne Carson’s Poetic Form’, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol.43, Issue 2, Routledge, USA‘No Language For My Ambivalence’: Masochism and Feminism in Women’s Life Writing, Life Writing, Routledge, UK. January 2012‘Loving Certain Human Things: Feminism, Sexuality and Women’s Interrupted Fictions’, Australian Public Intellectual Network, Online Journal, April 2006‘Loving Certain Human Things: Feminism, Sexuality and Women’s Interrupted Fictions’, Journal of Australian Studies, New Talents Edition, No.84, May 2005‘Malevolent Story’ (Fictocriticism), Hecate, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2002CONFERENCE PAPERS‘Desire and its Disastrous Results: Re-examining Representations of Feminine Masochism in Women’s Writing’, Refereed Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, Melbourne, Australia, 2010CRITICISMYoung Adult Fiction Reviews, Australian Book Review, No. 362, 356, 354, 349, 345, 341, 329, 323, 317, 305, 302, 291, 273, 270, 268Contributing Reviewer, 1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, Quintessence, London, 2009OTHER (SELECTED WORKS)'Dust Figures', Ink 4: Society of Women Writers Centenary Anthology 2025'The Life of Water', Ink 4: Society of Women Writers Centenary Anthology 2025'Crush: A Memoir', Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology 2019'Cyprus, 1985', 2018 ACU Prize for Poetry Chapbook'Make-up Lessons', Grieve 2017 Anthology, Hunter Writer's Centre'What She Left Behind' and 'For Danya', Grieve 2015 Anthology, Hunter Writer's Centre'Why I Don't Want to "Get Over" My Grief', Mamamia.com.au and Ravishly.com, August 2015‘Olvidar’ (Short Fiction), Spanish-language magazine Hermano Cerdo, July 2012‘Forgetting’ (Short Fiction), Griffith Review, Fiction Issue, October 2011‘Laws of Affinity’ (extract from Anatomy of the Upper Body), Meanjin, Vol. 68, No.4, January 2010‘Sometimes I Have a Craving’ (Short Fiction), Hidden Desires: Australian Women Writing, Ginninderra Press, Australia, 2006‘Last Night in a Dark Street’ (Short Fiction), Emerge: New Australian Writing, Wet Ink, Australia, 2006

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awards & honours

2023: Society of Women Writers National Writing Competition, First Prize Non-Fiction ('Dust Figures') and Commended Fiction ('The Life of Water')2022: Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2022 for Not Keeping Mum: Australian Writers Tell the Truth About Perinatal Anxiety & Depression in Poetry, Fiction & Essay2021: Commended, Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize 20212019: Shortlisted, Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize 2019 for 'Crush'2019: Shortlisted, Newcastle Short Story Award 2019 for 'Crush'2018: Highly commended, Boroondara Literary Awards for 'Crush'2018: Shortlisted, ACU Poetry Prize for poem 'Cyprus, 1985'2012: Longlisted for ‘Anatomy of the Upper Body’, The Australian/Vogel Literary Award 20122011: Shortlisted (Top 10 of 578) for ‘Anatomy of the Upper Body’, Alma Books/Lightship First Chapter Unpublished Manuscript Award 2011 (London, UK)2011: Awarded Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize for short story, ‘Forgetting’2009 – 2010: Mentorship with award-winning New York novelist and Princeton Creative Writing Professor, Susanna Moore (In the Cut, The Whiteness of Bones etc)2009 – 2010: Recipient of Commonwealth Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship (University of Adelaide) for PhD research2008: Recipient of TRIPS (Travel for Research in Postgraduate Study) award (University of Melbourne) to fund travel to the UK for research and conference presentation purposes2007 - 2009: Recipient of Melbourne Research Scholarship (University of Melbourne) for PhD research2005: Gained and completed competitive internships at the Australian head editorial offices of Girlfriend, Filmink and Vogue Entertaining+Travel magazines2004: Awarded First Prize in the 2004 Australian Book Review reviewing competition with commission for ongoing contributions2004: Awarded University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association Writing Prize, 20042003 - 2004: Recipient of Commonwealth Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship (University of Melbourne) for Masters research2000: Co-editor of Vivid, the School of Creative Arts Writing Journal, Volume 4, 2000

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Education

2009 – 2011 University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
PhD: Creative Writing/Literary Studies (Conferred August 2011)
Thesis Title: ‘Desire and its Disastrous Results’: Re-examining Representations of Feminine Masochism in Women’s Writing2007 – 2009 University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
PhD: Creative Writing/Literary Studies
Thesis Title: ‘Desire and its Disastrous Results’: Re-examining Representations of Feminine Masochism in Women’s Writing2002 – 2004 University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Master of Arts: Creative Writing (First Class Honours)
Thesis Title: ‘Burning at the Edges’: Feminism, Heterosexuality and Women’s Interrupted Fictions1998 - 2001 University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Bachelor of Creative Arts
Double major Media Arts/Creative Writing
Fourth Year Honours: Media Arts/Creative Writing (First Class Honours)
Thesis Title: ‘Corporeal Landscapes’: Women, Writing, the Body and NatureCONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS2013: Panelist, ‘Between Friends’, Melbourne Writers Festival2013: Panelist, ‘Just Between Us: Writing Female Friendship’, Williamstown Literary Festival2010: ‘Desire and its Disastrous Results: Re-examining Representations of Feminine Masochism in Women’s Writing’, Australasian Association of Writing Programs 15th Annual Conference2010: ‘Metaphors of war: Desire, Danger and Ambivalence in Anne Carson’s Poetic Form’, The Third Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network, San Diego State University2009: Presentation of extract from Anatomy of the Upper Body (novel in progress) on Radio Adelaide’s Writer’s Radio program (aired nationally, October 26, 2009)2008: Presentation of extract from Anatomy of the Upper Body (novel in progress), Living Memory: Remembering, Reinventing and Forgetting, UNSW School of English, Media & Performing Arts Annual Postgraduate Symposium2008: ‘Desire and its Disastrous Results: Femininity, Masochism and Romantic Obsession’, Obsession and Addiction: An International Cultural Connections Symposium, Kingston University, London2007: ‘Multifariousness AS Resistance’: Feminism, Experimentalism and Ambivalence in Women’s Creative Self-Representations’, Manifesting Literary Feminisms Conference, Monash University, Melbourne2003: ‘Loving Certain Human Things: Feminism, Sexuality and Women’s Interrupted Fictions’, Australasian Association of Writing Programs 8th Annual Conference, University of New South Wales