Tim Loveday

Tim Loveday is an award-winning poet, writer, editor and clown lark. As the recipient of a 2021 Next Chapter Wheeler Centre Fellowship, 2022 Writing Space Fellowship, 2022 Melbourne City Arts Grant, and 2023 Australian Arts Council Grant, he critically examines masculinity, inter-generational violence and rural communities reckoning with climate collapse. In 2022, Tim won the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize through the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards; and in 2021, he was highly commended in the Southern Cross Short Story Competition. His poetry/prose has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, the Griffith review, Suburban Review, Victorian Writers, Cordite, The Big Issue, Mascara, and Meniscus, among many others. His spoken word has been featured on RRR and FBI radio, and he has performed extensively throughout Victoria and NSW. Notable features include, Melbourne Spoken Word and Conversations With Men hosted by Clementine Ford. A neurodivergent dog parent, he is the verse editor for the Creative Hub of Extinction Rebellion and the director of Curate||Poetry. In 2021, he completed his Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT; and in 2022, he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing. He is represented by Jacinta di Mase literary agency; they are currently shopping his verse memoir, your father was a bastard.