Mid-Career Fellowship announced...
Wed, Nov 05, 2025
Congratulations to the 2025 Mid-Career Fellowship recipient Jeanine Leane.
With the support of the $10,000 Fellowship, Jeanine Leane will be supported to develop her powerful manuscript 'The Genealogy of Bruises' - a polyphonic, multi-perspective work that centres the voices and stories of Wiradjuri Country and women and challenges the limits of existing genre structures to tell a Blak story that is timely and original.
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her poetry, short stories, critique, and essays have been published in Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Westerly, Cordite Review Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. Jeanine has published widely in the areas of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness, literary critique, and creative non-fiction. She taught Creative Writing and Aboriginal Literature at the University of Melbourne from 2016 -2024. Jeanine’s collection of poetry, Gawimarra gathering (UQP 2024) won the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize at the NSW Literary Awards 2025.
Magabala Books acknowledges Serp Hills Foundation for their generous support of this award. We thank all applicants and acknowledge the significant work of mid-career First Nations authors expanding the realms of literature and storytelling.
Congratulations Jeanine, we look forward to the journey of this exciting work.
