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Jonathan O’Brien Jonathan O’Brien (8872651 works by)

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Jonathan O'Brien is a Brisbane-based writer, educator, and creative freelancer, described as 'a fresh and exciting voice' by The Guardian Australia. His fiction and research has won several awards, including the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artists Fellowship (2020) and the State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award (2017). He is a sessional academic at QUT, a publisher at Pseudonaja Group, and Brisbane Writers Festival's reigning Literary Death Match champion. He is the co-creator of The Beige Index, which assesses diversity in film.

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Author's website Sighted: 01/08/2022

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2023 winner Australasian Association of Writing Programs Awards — Chapter One Prize for 'The Freelancer'.

2023 joint winner Queensland Literary Awards — Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards

2021 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Awards

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Every Idea I Had For My Australian Literature Short Story Collection 2017 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award Website 1998-;

2017 winner State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award — 18-25 year category

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