tim loveday

Tim Loveday is an award-winning poet, writer, educator, editor and clown lark. his work explores class, masculinity, intergenerational violence and rural communities reckoning with climate collapse. He is the recipient of a 2021 Next Chapter Wheeler Centre Fellowship, a 2021 Varuna Residential fellowship, a 2022 Melbourne City Arts Grant, a 2022 Bundanon Residential fellowship, 2022 Griffith Review Residential Fellowship, a 2022 Writing Space Fellowship, a 2023 Australian Arts Council Grant and a 2023 Yarra City Arts Grant. In 2023, Tim won the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in The Kyogle Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize (Australia’s wealthiest poetry prize), long-listed for the Wyndham Flash Fiction Award and the Local Word Poetry Award. In 2022 he won the Dorothy Porter Poetry Award and in 2021 he was Highly Commended in the Southern Cross Short Story Award. His poetry/prose has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Island, The Griffith Review, Going Down Swinging, Cordite, Suburban Review, Mascara, The Big Issue, The Big Smoke, Text, Meniscus and The Victorian Writer, among many others. He has been Highly Commended in the Writability Fellowship, and has been twice shortlisted for the Running Dog Residency and The Big Issue Fiction Edition.

Tim has performed his work extensively throughout Australia. Notable features include Clementine Ford’s Conversations with men, Melbourne Spoken Word, EWF Digital and La Mama Poetica. He has made appearances on radio, including RRR, 3CR, Joy and FBI, and he has written & edited copy for major arts organisations including MQFF, All the best and S1T2. Tim has facilitated writing workshops for organisations such as Melbourne City Libraries and FBi Radio, and is currently co-writing a poetry review series with award-winning Australian poet Andy Jackson for Meanjin called Poets Correspond. He has received residencies from Varuna National Writers House, The Bundanon Trust and KSP. Tim teaches Poetry and Performance through Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT.

A Neurodivergent dog parent, he is the verse editor for XR’s Creative Hub, a sitting member on RMIT PWE’s Industry Advisory Council, former Student Adviser for IPEd (Vic. Branch), and the director of Curate||Poetry: where word arts meets visual art. Tim is currently shopping his verse memoir your father was a bastard and his eco-literary fiction novel those bloody animals.

 Originally from rural NSW, Tim currently resides in North Fitzroy, Melbourne, the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people, where he completed RMIT’s Honours in Creative Writing (First Class) and RMIT’s Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing, receiving the Vice-Chancellor’s List Award for both. With a passion for disability, Tim also has a Bachelor Degree in Disability and Inclusive Education from ACU. He is a current creative writing PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, where he is researching the mass radicalisation of male youth online through the manosphere and how such radicalisation might be reinterpreted through literary satire.

As an avid fan of the full stop, he’s afraid of sentences longer than 6 words; this bio is trying.