Creative and Professional Writing - Critical Thinking - Manuscript Assessment
BEL HAWLEY|WRITER
Experienced in contemporary, lyrical, and literary fiction writing, with a penchant for editing poetry and manuscript assessment, I’ve done everything from mentoring new writers and editing for journals, through to producing design briefs for poets and artists. If I include my past in marketing and short stint working in a library (I once curated and catalogued a book collection donated by the family of the writer Doris Leadbetter), I’ve been involved in writing and book appreciation, in one way or another, for the best part of 16 years.
EDUCATION
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Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing, NMIT (2008)
Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, Curtin University (2024)
Golden Key (2021)
Outstanding Student of the Year Award, Faculty of Further Education, NMIT (2008)
RESIDENCIES
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Glenfern Writers House 2016-2017
Writers Victoria Only Connect Digital Writer Residency 2019
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Publications, Awards, and Appearances
2020
​‘Into the Miraculous Squall’, The Victorian Writer, Tension Issue
‘Reflections on the Subcommittee’, The Victorian Writer, Writing Change Issue
2019
‘Call and Response’, collaborative project with Sally Lewry, produced as part of the Missives project, Digital Writers’ Festival
WoMentoring Project mentee, under the guidance of Emma Viskic
2017
​Highly Commended in the Transportation Press International Micro-Fiction Competition
‘Connect and Divide’, Smoke One, Transportation Press
2016
‘Get Smart’, 13 Stories, Busybird Publishing
2015
‘Eric (1927)’, The Victorian Writer, Fiction Edition
‘Jola Can’, Westerly 60.1
‘The Ebony Sticks Remind you of Father’s Cane’, Tincture, Issue 9
‘Your Geographic Base’, AntiTHESIS, Issue 25
2013
‘A Warm Aromatic Room Waits in a House with a Landlady who Locks the Doors at Five’, Visible Ink 25: On the Ledge of the World
‘Mama says we’re Modern-Day Romani cos we got a TV’, 13 Stories (ebook anthology), Busybird Publishing
2012
‘Breaking the Stasis: An Interview with Jessica Au’, Verity La
‘Never Missing a Note’, Vine Leaves, Issue 4
‘I do Okay’, Verandah, Issue 27
2011
‘End Notes’, dotdotdash, Issue 6, Jukebox
‘Dotting the Dash: Bel Woods’, dotdotdash
‘Some of the Things They Teach me: Interview with Louise Swinn’, Verity La
‘Everything as it Should Be: A Review of Jessica Au’s Cargo’, Verity La
‘A Reinterpretation of Self: An Interview with Les Zigomanis’, Verity La
'Vox: Bel Woods’, published as part of a Verity La Forum, Verity La
2010
‘My Sheets were Freshly Cleaned and Smelled of Lilac’, Verity La
‘Perfection’, [intitled pocketbook], Issue 2
‘Mama says we’re Modern-Day Romani cos we got a TV’, fourW
‘Get Smart’, page seventeen, Issue 8