Zenobia Frost is a writer and copyeditor with a particular interest in web content editing. Her creative writing can be found in Cordite, Island, Overland, Griffith Review, Meanjin, ABR and Best Australian Poems 2023. She won the 2018 Val Vallis Award for her poem, ‘Reality On-Demand‘. She is based in Brisbane, Australia.
Zenobia’s latest poetry collection, After the Demolition (Cordite Books) won the 2020 Wesley Michel Wright Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Read more about it in LA Review of Books.
contact: zenobia.frost[at]gmail[dot]com
Recent publications
- Red Room Poetry: ‘in the same room, I loop Star Trek and you loop Grey’s Anatomy; this is parallel play’ (with Bec Jessen)
- The Surburban Review: ‘HOUSING SIMULATOR 2023‘ (digital lit/interactive poem)
Best enjoyed on desktop. Visit itch.io for more. - Best of Australian Poems 2023: ‘For Exodus‘ (poem)
- Art Starts Here: 40 Years of Metro Arts (editor, 2020)
This gorgeous coffee-table history book charts the living history of Metro Arts in Brisbane, from its gutsy DIY beginnings to its bright future. Designed by Sean Dowling and Ashleigh Jacobsen.
Achievements
- Woollahra Digital Literary Award: Digital Innovation Award, shortlisted, 2024
- Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, shortlisted, 2023
- Woollahra Digital Literary Award, shortlisted, 2021
- Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize, 2020
- Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award, 2020
Sponsored by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. - Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artists Fellowship recipient, 2020
The Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artists Fellowships are an initiative of Brisbane City Council. - Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: shortlisted, 2020
- Master’s degree (MPhil by Creative Work) attained at QUT: “According to our bond”: The poetics of share house place attachment in Brisbane.
- Arts Queensland Val Vallis Prize: first place, 2018
- Overland Judith Wright Prize for Emerging Poets: shortlisted, 2017, 2013
- Queensland Literary Awards: Queensland Writers Fellowship, 2017
- Red Room Poetry Fellowship: shortlisted, 2017, 2018, 2020
- Australia Council ArtStart Grant, 2015
- FAW Anne Elder Award: commended, 2014
- Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize: shortlisted, 2013
- University of Queensland Kingshott Cassidy Poetry Award, 2011
Roles
- Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art:
Curatorial Assistant, Asian & Pacific Art, Oct 2024–present;
Assistant Editor, Digital, 2022 – Oct 2024; Acting Assistant Editor, 2021–22 - Queensland Poetry: Marketing and Events Manager, 2020–21;
Communications Coordinator, 2019; committee member, 2007–12 - Stilts Journal: co-editor, 2018
- Cordite Poetry Review: coordinating editor, 2012–2017
- Woolf Pack: poetry editor, 2016–2018
- Voiceworks Magazine: poetry editor/committee member, 2012–2014
- Rave Magazine: arts editor, 2010–12
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