Jenny Hedley is a neurodivergent writer, critic, digital creator and PhD candidate whose work appears in Overland Literary Journal, Griffith Review, TEXT Journal, Westerly Magazine, Rabbit, Archer Magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Crawlspace, DIAGRAM, Mascara Literary Review, The Suburban Review, Verity La, the anthologies Admissions: Voices within Mental Health and Verge.
Jenny mentored the Writeability Goes Local Port Phillip writers in 2024 and the Writeability Goes Local Whitehorse Manningham writers in 2023. She enjoys teaching student to code digital poetry through workshops and at RMIT University. Her creativecritical monograph My Archive Fever is supported by Creative Victoria and her memoir-in-progress Hermit Crab Diary is one of her research artefacts. Her hybrid monster of a memoir-slash-#MeToo polemic My Body Remembers seeks a home.
Jenny lives on unceded Boon Wurrung land with her son. She acknowledges the traditional owners of this land, the Yalukit Willam people, and pays her respect to their ancestors past and present. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
Contact: jennyisanauthor [at] gmail [dot] com
2024 – Dorothy Porter Award for Emerging Poets – Shortlisted – "Mother-Daughter Diptych"
2023 – Woollahra Digital Literary Awards – Shortlisted, digital innovation – "Titleist Pro V1"
2023 – Witness Magazine Literary Awards – Finalist, nonfiction – "Body Parts"
2022 – Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards – Runner-up, narrative nonfiction – "My Body Under Capitalism"
Judges report:
Perspicacious, unnervingly honest and formidable in scope. The essay deliberately places its ideas and narrative in the context of academic literature, resulting in a powerful statement against the co-option of women’s bodies, the slippery (and easily sidestepped) boundaries of commodification and consent, and the latent power in owning one’s story.
2022 – Woollahra Digital Literary Awards – Shortlisted, digital innovation – "A Compendium of Failed Relationships"
2022 – RMIT University – Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence
2021 – RMIT University – Vice-Chancellor’s List for Academic Excellence
4-6 December - Digital Divinations: Machines and Humans Read / Write City North
14 September 2024 - Emerging Writers' Festival "Verse in Code" workshop
April–November 2024 - Writeability Goes Local: Port Phillip Libraries Writers Group
15 May 2024 - Writeability Goes Local Own Voices Forum
23 January 2024 - City of Melbourne SIGNAL "Light Up" Digital Poetry Workshop
May 2023 - Feb 2024 - Writeability Goes Local: Whitehorse Manningham Libraries Writers Group
June 2023 - Emerging Writers' Festival X Crawlspace digital exhibition
May 2023 – Writeability Goes Local Own Voices Forum