Ellen O’Brien
writer / editor / tutor


Orange Spinning Heart Within A Heart


ESSAYS AND CRITICISM


Black Swan Way | LIMINAL

Critical Mass | Sydney Review of Books

Currents | Soft Stir Magazine

Journey to Here | Sydney Review of Books

You Have to Believe Me | Sydney Review of Books

Beyond Remembering: The Role of Memorialisation in Decolonisation | un Magazine

Beyond Prison | Overland

Bad Taste: The Ignorance of Internet Veganism | Voiceworks

BOOKS


Opaque Gems: on Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki and Don’t Take Your Love to Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi | Meanjin

Surrounded by Echoes: on Tell Me Again by Amy Thunig | Meanjin

Good Reading: on Love & Virtue by Diana Reid | Meanjin

Running to Nowhere: on Enclave by Claire Coleman | Meanjin

Sparks Into Flames: on Unlimited Futures edited by Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neervan | Meanjin

FILM


Truth Be Told: Interview with Mike Leigh | The Big Issue #731

On the Road: Interview with Jub Clerc | The Big Issue #688

On You Can Go Now | The Big Issue #678

On Millie Lies Low | The Big Issue #675

Your Money, My Problem: on Bodies Bodies Bodies | Kill Your Darlings

On Funny Pages | MIFF Blog

POETRY


I have previously appeared at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Digital Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers’ Festival, Words on the Waves Writers’ Festival, and Queer Provocations. I have also visited Concordia University’s Acts of Listening Lab to appear at a Listening Tables event

I have read my work and conducted interviews at events hosted by The Wheeler CentreNSW Writers’ Centre, Sydney World Pride, State Library NSW, Leichhardt LibrarySubbed In and Queeries

You can also listen to me in conversation with Gavin Ivey on outLOUD, a First Nations LGBTQIA+SB story and writing podcast. 





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acknowledgment of country

i mostly work from the lands of the Bidjigal people in south-west sydney, and i offer my respects to their Elders past and present for their ongoing nurturance and care. this is, was and always will be Aboriginal land.