Leni Shilton is a poet, teacher and researcher based in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.[1]

Biography

Shilton grew up in Papua New Guinea and Melbourne, Australia. She moved to Alice Springs in 1985 to the region to work as a remote-area nurse and health educator but has since taught creative writing at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education.[2][3] She has also worked at NPY Women's Council as an education researcher.[4]

Shilton's poetry has been included in a number of anthologies, journals and broadcast radio[3] and in 2018, she published her first book Walking with camels: the story of Bertha Strehlow through University of Western Australia Publishing, developed from her creative writing PhD, Giving silence its voice: uncovering Bertha Strehlow's voice through poetry.[5] It was a finalist in the Northern Territory History Book Awards.

Shilton's second book, Malcolm : a story in verse, was published in 2019 and it is set in Melbourne's underbelly and centres around Malcolm, a 17 year old boy, with a difficult and violent upbringing.[6]

Shilton is also a founding member of Ptilotus Press, a community publisher in Alice Springs, which is managed by a collective of local writers.[1]

Awards and honours

  • Northern Territory Literary Award for poetry, 2010 and 2016[7]
  • Northern Territory Literary Award, essay category, 2012.[7]
  • 2015, shortlisted, University of Canberra Poetry Prize[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leni Shilton · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "Leni Shilton". NT Writers' Centre. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Leni Shilton: (author/organisation) | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  4. ↑ "Strengthening Community Capacity to End Violence" (PDF). NPY Women’s Council. 2017. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  5. ↑ "Strehlow Centre great legacy". www.ntnews.com.au. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  6. ↑ SHILTON, LENI (2019), MALCOLM : a story in verse, UWA PUBLISHING, ISBN 978-1-76080-053-6
  7. 1 2 "Northern Territory Literary Awards - Past winners | Library & Archives NT". lant.nt.gov.au. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  8. ↑ "Leni Shilton". UWA Publishing. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
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