Anna Krien - Writer, Editor, Teacher

ANNA KRIEN

Writer, Teacher

Photo: Jesse Marlow

ABOUT

Anna Krien writes the usual suspects - reportage, essays, investigations, reflections, reviews,
novels, short stories, chapbooks and picture books - across non-fiction, fiction and poetry.
She 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.

Her work has been published internationally, with Night Games appearing in the UK and
Italy, Act of Grace in the UK, and her reportage republished across Europe, the UK and
Mexico. Her writing has also appeared widely 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, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Award and
longlisted for the Miles Franklin before disappearing into the COVID-19 abyss.

Her first picture book, The Warmies, illustrated by the talented Simon O'Carrigan, is
forthcoming from Scribble in 2027. It will no doubt flummox booksellers - where the hell do
we put this thing? - but will hopefully also catch the eye of kids who like a bit of grit in their
stories.

Anna can also write in first person ...

I currently teach creative writing and narrative storytelling across different mediums at the
University of Melbourne. I regularly run workshops for primary and secondary schools,
libraries, councils and arts organisations. My teaching draws on my experience as a writer
and journalist, and spans creative writing, narrative nonfiction, journalism and storytelling.
I've worked with students and writers at the University of Melbourne, RMIT, QUT, La Trobe
University, the Northern Territory Writers Centre, Writers Victoria, Express Media and the
Wheeler Centre, among others.

Contact me directly for public speaking and teaching engagements.

And then there's Act of Grace, that novel eaten by the pandemic. I have a box of them
clogging up the closet. Please buy one or three.

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

Purchase the Australian edition of Act of Grace, in paperback, for AUD $15 + postage.
Email Anna to arrange payment by bank transfer, PayID or Paypal.

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