Shortlisted Authors and Longlisted Authors for UNSWeetened Literary Journal 2022

We thank you for sharing your work with the community, your commitment to the writing craft, and your passion for UNSWeetened this year. 

Alexa Stevens is a second year Commerce/Arts student who once wrote terrible prose and now writes slightly better poetry. Never seen without a book, she currently co-runs the Blitz Bookclub podcast, and has a couple of award winning poems to her name. Never stops talking (affectionately).

Georgia grew up on the beautiful land of the Yuin Nation and has been writing ever since she can remember. Now studying English/Creative Writing, she is interested in a raw and vulnerable exploration of the exquisite intricacy of her character’s essential being as she attempts to understand her own.

Elena loves to write stories that make you check under the bed before you go to sleep. Stories that pull at the threadbare string that is our societal expectations. Her writing focuses on the uncomfortable and taboo, with just a dash of whimsy and a pinch of dark humour.

Eloise Wajon is a writer, a gamer and an autistic person in that order. Born and raised in the south eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, she is currently in her first year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts/Arts. This is her first published work.

Nicole Cadelina is writer and artist graduating with Fine Arts/Arts. Inspired by Robert Bresson, Louise Glück, and Sasha Marie Radio, she firmly believes in the healing power of quietude and love comradeship in a culture of immediacy. Her favourite genre of film is SBS World Movies after 9pm.

Laura is a second year studying computer science and creative writing, and is the author of the fantasy novel The Shadow Wren’s Cry. She enjoys playing guitar and reading obsessively, has entirely too many hobbies, and doesn’t really understand why people small talk when they could be talking about books.

Caitlyn Dixon is a storyteller from the Central Coast, studying a bachelor of Fine Arts and Arts. The sensory, poetic and the emotional are heart language forms for her, as well as a fascination with the profound value of different relationships in our lives.

Isaac Di Matteo is a second-gen Italian and an aspiring writer living in the western suburbs of Sydney. In his final year of studying, Isaac plans to continue writing fiction around the likelihood of a 9-5 day job.