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Anne Myers is a writer and nurse living on Dja Dja Wurrung country in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria.
Her writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies including Meanjin, Southerly, The Death Mook, The Sound of Silence, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Women’s Footy Almanac, The Guardian, The Age and ABC Radio National.
Her fiction manuscript The Boathouse (renamed Wreck) was shortlisted for the 2026 Fearless Prize, received a Varuna Fellowship and was Highly Commended in the ASA Emerging Writers’ Mentorship Programme (2018). She attended the ACT HARDCOPY Program (2017) and the Artist-in-Residence program at Bundanon Trust (2019) to work on her creative nonfiction project, The Heart of the Matter, about working as a nurse in remote Aboriginal communities.
Her memoir manuscript The Little Ones about grief and loss around miscarriage was shortlisted for the Richell Prize 2022, received a Varuna 2023 Fellowship and was a 2024 Varuna Pitch Me! Recipients.
Winner of the Southern Cross Literary Prize (2015) and shortlisted for the Lord Mayors Prize (2015) and Overland Story Wine Prize (2016).
Her current project A Matter of the Cold centres around the lives of two sisters in the wake of the loss of their father in Antarctica when they were children.
Anne completed a Ba(Hons) in Literary studies and Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne (2007) while working as a nurse in ICU. Anne currently works as a community palliative care nurse.
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Represented by Shaw Literary: martin@thebooksdesk.com
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