Natasha Lester

Name Natasha Lester
Email Address Natasha.Lester@bigpond.com
Profession Writer
Professional Services
  • Talks
  • Workshop presentation
Areas of Work
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
Country Australia
State WA
Suburb Nedlands
Address 63 Stanley St
Biography Natasha has just completed her first novel and a Master of Creative Arts at Curtin University. Her short stories and poetry have been widely published. She regularly tutors and conducts workshops in creative writing.
Publication History 2008 indigo, Vol 2, March 2008 • Short Story: What is Left Over, After Maj Monologues, March 2008 • Script (selected as finalist and performed over 5 nights at His Majesty’s Theatre, Perth): What is Left Over, After 2007 FAWWA Anthology (Title TBC), 2008 • Short Story (shortlisted): Bodies Emerge: New Australian Writing (published by Wet Ink) • Poem: The Odalisque 2006 Strange3, Issue 3, 2006 (edited by Marion Campbell) • Short Story: The Odalisque 2005 Pendulum, Issue 9, Oct 2005 • Poem: Phosphorescence Page Seventeen, Issue 2, Oct 2005 • Poem: Yummy mummydom has suddenly become aspirational API Review of Books, No 37, Sept 2005 • Review: Blur: Friendly Street Poets 29 Emerging Writer in Residence, June- July 2005 • Awarded a 4-week residency at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre, WA. Space: New Writing, Issue 2, March 2005 • Short Story: The Quest for the Mondrian Dress 2004 My Brother Jack Short Story Award, Sept 2004 • Highly Commended Short Story: Phosphorescence Sitelines, Vol 1, No 2, Spring 2004 • Poems: WOMD and Split Overland, Vol. 175, Winter 2004 • Poem: From this day forward Sitelines, Vol 1, No 1, Autumn 2004 • Short Story: Venus and David Radio NAG, Words and Music, March 2004 • Short Story: The Mating Game