Artists

Allison Browning (she/her) is a writer and psychotherapist, living in Naarm, Melbourne.

Her work has appeared in publications including Best Australian Poems, Australian Love Stories, Overland, Island Magazine, The Big Issue Fiction Edition, Kill Your Darlings and Going Down Swinging. Her writing has been recognised in awards including the Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, the NSW Poetry Prize, and the Dorothy Porter Award for Poetry. Her novel in progress has received support from a Varuna Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship and a Glenfern Fellowship.
 

In Residence at Bundanon

During my time in residence at Bundanon, I will be working on Cockatoo, a novel of literary fiction that traces a queer love story across two distinct yet intertwined time periods in Australian history. This project builds on a sequence of linked short stories previously published in the Big Issue Fiction Edition and Australian Love Stories anthology, which explored the emotional terrain of aging, dementia and queer identity. These stories centred on two elderly men facing discrimination at the end of their life together. Cockatoo expands these themes into a broader, more ambitious narrative about memory, identity and resilience.