About Beth

Beth Spencer‘s most recent books are The Age of Fibs: stories, memoir, microlit (May 2022, Spineless Wonders),  Vagabondage, a verse memoir published by UWAPublishing, and The Party of Life (poetry, Flying Islands).

Previous books include How to Conceive of a Girl (fiction) which was runner up for the Steele Rudd award. It was originally published by Vintage/Random House Australia, and is now available as a Kindle ebook.

Her first book of poetry — Things in a Glass Box —  was published as a part of the SCARP/Five Islands New Poets series, and was the basis of a sound-text feature on Radio National’s Poetica. Things in a Glass Box is also available as a Kindle ebook.

Beth has also published essays, academic articles, columns for The Age newspaper, and written and produced work for ABC Radio National. Her ABC sound and text pieces are collected on the double CD Body of Words (dogmedia, 2004).

She has been awarded several Australia Council Literature Board fellowships, a Varuna Writer’s Fellowship, a CreateNSW grant, the Inaugural Dinny O’Hearn fellowship at the Australian Centre. She won the Age Short Story Award and the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award, and has a PhD for her thesis The Body as Fiction/Fiction as a Way of Thinking.

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