Jenny Hedley
Author | Artist | Teacher
Jenny Hedley is a neurodivergent writer, critic, digital artist and third-year PhD candidate at RMIT University whose work appears in the Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Griffith Review, TEXT, Westerly, Rabbit, Archer, Cordite, Crawlspace, DIAGRAM, Mascara, The Suburban Review, Verity La, and the anthology Admissions: Voices within Mental Health.
Jenny teaches digital poetry at RMIT University - where she takes part in Gutter Stars and the non/fictionLab. She mentored the Writeability Goes Local Port Phillip writers in 2024 and the Writeability Goes Local Whitehorse Manningham writers in 2023.
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.
Selected Publications
- ‘Glitching the Binary: Jenny Hedley on BDSM in Anna Poletti’s hello, world?’ (May 2025)
- ‘The weight of things: Object-oriented mania, citational hoarding and critical-mess literature’ (Dec 2024)
- ‘Digital poesis impulse: A methodology of creative coding with GPT as co-pilot’ (Apr 2024)
- ‘A lonely girl phenomenology’ (Feb 2024)
- Full list of publications
Awards and Almosts
- 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"
- 2022 – Woollahra Digital Literary Awards – Shortlisted, digital innovation – "A Compendium of Failed Relationships"
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.
Appearances and Workshops
- September 2025 – Emerging Writers' Festival – Comics Off the Page exhibition
- 4-6 December 2024 – Digital Divinations: Machines and Humans Read / Write City North | view the Digital Divination Lab's website on your desktop
- September 2024 – Emerging Writers' Festival "Verse in Code" workshop
- April–November 2024 – Writeability Goes Local: Port Phillip Libraries Writers Group
- May 2024 – Writeability Goes Local Own Voices Forum
- 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 curated by Rory Green and Hannah Jenkins
- May 2023 – Writeability Goes Local Own Voices Forum
Contact
jennyisanauthor [at] gmail [dot] com