Summary
Lisa Collyer is a poet and educator residing in Boorloo (Perth, W.A.). She is an experienced speaker, performance poet, collaborator, and poetry workshop facilitator. Her skills extend to conceptualising and organising library and bookshop events for writers and mentoring, marketing and publicity.
Biography
Lisa Collyer is a writer and educator in Boorloo. She is the author of two poetry collections, How To Order Eggs Sunny Side Up, (short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award) and Gold-digger (to be released in April 2025), both published with Gazebo Books/Life Before Man. Her personal essay, Prolonged Exposure will be published in the anthology, Women of a Certain Courage with Fremantle Press in February 2025. She is widely published in Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite Poetry Review, Meniscus, Rabbit, Westerly and more. She was a writer in residence for The National Trust of W.A., and judge of The Tom Collins Poetry Prize and recently won an artist residence at Bundanon Art Museum for 2025 where she will create new work on climate grief.
Relevant qualifications
Short-listed for The Dorothy Hewett Award
Artist residence, Bundanon Art Museum
Writer in residence, The National Trust of W.A.
Westerly Magazine, writer development program
Judge, Tom Collins Poetry Prize
Book Reviewer, Westerly Magazine
Book Reviewer, Mascara Literary Review
Invited writer in residence, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer's Centre
Writer in residence, City of Swan
Writer in residence, W.A. Poets
Winner of The Annette Cameron Poetry Prize
Recent experience
Poetry Feature, Perth Writer's Festival, 2024
Poetry Feature, Mandurah Readers' and Writers' Festival, 2024
Judge, Tom Collins Poetry Prize, 2024
Author conversation and poetry reading, The Lane Bookshop, Claremont, 2024
Workshop facilitator, Fremantle Library, 2024
Get in touch
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lisacollyerpoet