Kit Scriven is a writer based in central Victoria, Australia
Contact: scriven.kit@gmail.com
Contact: scriven.kit@gmail.com
Writing credits – short stories
- Won: Booranga literary prize (short story) 2023 – ‘So much depends’
- Won: KSP short fiction competition 2022 – ‘The accomplice’
- Won: Peter Cowan 600-word short story competition 2021 – ‘In the womb of his truck’
- Won: Margaret River short story award 2019 – ‘We’ll stand in that place’
- Won: Olga Masters short story award 2017 – ‘He cannot dream a river’
- Won: Olga Masters short story award 2016 – ‘Poems from another planet’
- Won: SALA short story prize 2016 – ‘Knees like polished stones’
- 2nd: Newcastle short story award 2021 – ‘She wore red on her lips’
- 2nd: Maureen Freer (FAWQ) literary competition 2021 (short story) – ‘Freedom’
- 2nd: Maureen Freer (FAWQ) literary competition 2020 (short story) – ‘The sentence’
- 2nd: Alan Marshall short story award 2017 – ‘Mallee dirt bleeds red’
- 3rd: ESU Roly Sussex short story award 2017 – ‘She wore red on her lips’
- Finalist: Tasmanian Writers Prize 2019 – ‘A compendium of the ephemeral’
- Finalist: Joseph Furphy literary award 2016 – ‘All the dead pixies’
- Shortlisted: Maureen Freer short story competition – ‘A line in the sand’ 2023
- Shortlisted: KSP short fiction competition 2021 – ‘The buyer’
- Shortlisted: Better Read ‘The road less travelled’ writing competition 2019 – ‘Eve’s Passenger’
- Shortlisted: Alan Marshall short story award 2018 – ‘Let’s drive with the windows down’
- Shortlisted: Margaret River short story award 2018 – ‘The fate of angels’
- Shortlisted: Peter Carey short story award 2017 – ‘All the dead pixies’
- Shortlisted: Southern Cross literary award 2016 – ‘Fragments’
- Highly commended: ESU Roly Sussex short story competition 2023 – ‘The recognition of certainty’
- Highly commended: KSP short fiction competition 2022 – ‘An unopened life’
- Highly commended: Henry Lawson Society literary awards 2019 (short story) – ‘The colour of time’
- Highly commended: Peter Cowan 600-word short story competition 2019 – ‘How she keeps the words in’
- Longlisted: Stuart and Hadow short story competition 2022 – ‘One of those towns’
- Longlisted: Peter Carey short story award 2022 – ‘We can’t blame the pelicans’
- Longlisted: ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 2016 – ‘All the dead pixies’
Writing credits – poems
- Shortlisted: Alice Sinclair Writing Competition 2022 – ‘You woman of scraps’
- Highly commended: Geelong Writers Inc. Geelong Writers Poetry Competition 2011 – ‘Cartography’
- Longlisted: Lane Cove Literary Awards Poetry Prize 2021 – ‘Un-utilitied’
Writing credits – novels
- Longlisted: Viva la Novella 2021 – The plains wanderer
Unpublished novels
- The plains wanderer (a literary novel set on the irrigation plains of northern Victoria)
- The certainty (a crime novel featuring a madam and her son, a corrupt cop, an ex-cop, and a crooked horse trainer and his jockey niece)
- Be a better griffin (a young adult novel set in a dystopian world)
Works in progress
- The answer (a sequel to The certainty)
- Short stories: ‘The sins of bread makers’, ‘Fourteen words’, The architecture of happiness’, ‘Because we are who we are’, We citizens of bland’, ‘Everything is so thin’ and ‘In the fist of the fist of the country’
Kit Scriven 