Dominic Symes

Dominic Symes (he/him) was born on Kaurna country (Adelaide) in 1990. He writes poetry, some of which has appeared in places as various as Overland, Cordite Poetry Review, Rabbit, Australian Book Review, Australian Poetry Journal and Best of Australian Poems 2021. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Award for Poetry and the Woorilla Poetry Prize, and won the Woollahra Digital Literary Prize for Poetry. He helps curate NO WAVE, a monthly poetry reading series at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Adelaide, which has been running continuously since 2018. From 2016 to 2019, he completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, under the supervision of the poet Jill Jones, that explored contemporary ekphrastic poetry and for which he was awarded a Dean’s Commendation. Previously he has worked as an academic at the University of Adelaide, Swinburne University of Technology and La Salle College of the Arts (Singapore), teaching English Literature and Creative Writing, and also as a touring musician in folk and indie music projects which took him around Australia, to New Zealand and across Europe. He currently lives on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people in Naarm (Melbourne) where he works as an editor. His first book, I saw the best memes of my generation, was published by Recent Works Press in 2022.

http://www.domsymes.com/