Episode description
Writer and poet Ellen van Neerven reflects on team sport friendships, new cities and personal geographies.
Ellen van Neerven is a writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage.
Her first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014), was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. Heat and Light was also shortlisted for The Stella Prize, the Queensland Literary Award for State Significance, and the Readings Prize. Ellen's second book, a collection of poetry, Comfort Food (UQP, 2016) was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize and Highly Commended for the 2016 Wesley Michel Wright Prize.
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