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Esther Ottaway Esther Ottaway i(A84502 works by)
Born: Established: 1976 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Esther Ottaway is based in Hobart, Tasmania. She writes for print, radio and television. Her poetry has been published in Australia's leading literary journals and newspapers and arranged for jazz performance. In 2008 she had poetry commissioned for the Sydney Writer's Festival and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and in 2009 won the Tom Collins Poetry Prize.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 winner Queensland Poetry Festival Awards — QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge for 'Sensory Processing Disorder' (in response to I Seem More Aware Of Subtleties In My Space by Melissa Spratt, 2020)
2020 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Individuals and groups  ($12,000)
2006 Australian Youth and Young Poets Fellowships — Young Poet
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Intimate, Low-voiced, Delicate Things Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2021 22960413 2021 selected work poetry

'From the award-winning author of Blood Universe - poems on pregnancy comes a full-length collection of new poetry: powerful, poignant meditations on family and its origins, parenthood, love and the loss of love. Includes poems shortlisted for the Montreal International and Bridport Prizes.' (Publication summary)
2022 winner Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards — Tim Thorne Prize for Poetry
Triptych i "My daughter explains how it happened: Grandma is your mother.", 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Montreal International Poetry Prize - 2020 Shortlist 2020;
2020 shortlisted Montreal International Poetry Prize
Dimension and Light 2006 sequence poetry
— Appears in: The Envelope Please : A Celebration of the Winners from the 2005 National Literary Awards 2006; (p. 122-123)
2005 highly commended The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards — FAW John Shaw Nelson Poetry Award
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