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Australian writer Magan Magan
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Magan Magan is a writer and poet based in Melbourne. He holds a Creative Writing degree from Victoria University.
Magan is the author of From Grains to Gold (Vulgar Press, 2018), a collection of poems about grief. His work has been published in Hyde magazine, literary arts journal Offset, Cordite Poetry Review, The Suburban Review, Djed Press, The Lifted Brow and Plumwood Mountain Journal.
Magan is published in anthologies such as Shots From The Chamber, Hunter Anthology of Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry and Australian Poetry. He writes reviews for Cordite Poetry Review and Melbourne Spoken Word.
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When Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, co-editors of literary magazine Overland, announced the shortlist for the magazine’s Nakata Brophy prize for Indigenous poetry last year, they received a letter of complaint. The point of contention? There were no men in the shortlist.
“We only had women and nonbinary entries,” says Araluen. “And it was our biggest year [in terms of entry numbers] for the prize.”
Only a few years ago, she says, female entrants to any poetry prize would have been hugely outnumbered by men – and Indigenous poets were few and far between.