ANNA KRIEN
Writer, Editor, Teacher
Photo: Jesse Marlow
ABOUT
Anna Krien is the author of the award-winning Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as two Quarterly Essays, Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals and The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock. Anna's writing has been published widely including in The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, The Age, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review and The Big Issue. An early recipient of the Val Vallis Poetry Award in 2008, she won the UK William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 2014 and received a Sidney Myer Fellowship in 2018. Act of Grace is her debut novel.
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SELECTED WORK
Books
Act of Grace
- Shortlisted, 2020 Queensland Literary Awards
- Shortlisted, 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
- Longlisted, 2019 Indie Book Awards
- Longlisted, 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award
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Night Games: Sex, Power & Sport
- Winner, 2014 Davitt Award for Best True Crime Book
- Winner, 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year
- Winner, New Writer of the Year Award at the 2015 Cross British Sports Book Awards
- Shortlisted, 2013 Walkley Non-Fiction Book Award
- Shortlisted, 2014 Adelaide Festival Award for Non-Fiction
- Shortlisted, 2014 Stella Prize
- Shortlisted, 2014 Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction
- Shortlisted, 2015 Cross British Sports Book Award for New Writing
Into the Woods: the Battle for Tasmania's Forests
- Winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2011
- Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2011
- Winner of the Literary or Media Award Advancing Public Debate in the 2011 QLD Premier's Literary Awards
- Winner of the People's Choice Award in the 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
- Shortlisted, 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
- Shortlisted, 2011 WA Premier's Literary Awards
- Shortlisted for the ABIA Newcomer of the Year Award
- Shortlisted, 2011 Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize
Quarterly Essays
Journalism
The people who mistook their lives for an App, The Monthly, 2024
The Tate Race, The Monthly, 2024
The death of Kumanjayi Walker, The Monthly, 2023
The screens that ate school, The Monthly, 2020
In Danger: The strange life and tragic death of Julia the gorilla, The Monthly, 2015
Homecoming, Good Weekend, 2014
Booze Territory, The Monthly, 2011
Out of Bounds: Sex and the AFL, The Monthly 2011
Cell Block: A Look inside Australia's Women Prisons, The Big Issue, 2006
Trouble on the Night Shift, The Monthly, 2005
Flotsam
Desert Bloom: The Tennant Creek Brio, The Monthly, 2020
Hanging on the telephone, The Monthly, 2020
My Granny's Last Wish, in It Happened in a Holden, Affirm Press
Drawn Faces: The last of the Court Artists, The Monthly, 2012
Do Not Disturb: The Science of Flavours, in Australian Food Writing, Hardie Grant, 2012
Short Fiction
Eyes & Teeth, The Saturday Paper, 2024
Flicking the Flint, in Best Australian Stories, Black Inc 2014
Still Here, Griffith Review, 2010
Poetry
Horses, Harvest Journal, 2010
The Last Broadcasters, winner of the Val Vallis Award, 2008
Suburban Archaeology, Griffith Review, 2007
These are Wobbly Days, Griffith Review, 2006