About

Emilie Collyer writes across and between poetry, performance and prose.

Her work mines the intersection of the personal, the existential and the socio-political and she is interested in bringing different forms into conversation with each other. Emilie’s plays include Super, Contest, Dream Home and The Good Girl which has had multiple international productions. Emilie’s plays have won and been nominated for numerous awards including the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Drama (winner 2026 for Super) Theatre503 International Playwriting Award (London), Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, Green Room Awards, George Fairfax, Patrick White and Malcolm Robertson. Emilie is currently under commission with The Street Theatre where she is creating a music-led theatre work titled The Signal Makers with composer Jess Green. She is also the 2026-27 Associate Artist at Geelong Arts Centre where she is developing a new play titled Quarry.

Emilie’s debut full-length poetry collection Do you have anything less domestic? (Vagabond Press 2022) won the inaugural Five Islands First Book Prize. Her second collection As If I’m Really There (Vagabond Press 2025) won the 2026 Wesley Michel Wright Prize. She was runner-up in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2024 for which she was shortlisted in 2026. She has also been recognised in the Newcastle Poetry Prize (third place 2026, shortlist 2024) and Judith Wright Poetry Prize (shortlist 2025). Her poetry and essays are published across a wide range of literary and scholarly journals locally and internationally.

Emilie works as a dramaturg, text consultant and teacher with artists including Michele Lee and Bridget Mackey and institutions including VCA, RMIT and Writers Victoria. She has just completed her PhD at RMIT where she researched feminist creative practice and where she is now an Adjunct Industry Fellow.

An experienced workshop facilitator, Emilie specialises in generative writing workshops where students - of any age or experience - feel excited about writing and safe to try out new ideas.

Emilie lives in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on Wurundjeri country and acknowledges the traditional owners of the land, and that sovereignity was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

Contact

Get in contact with Emilie to ask about performance rights, or book her for any kind of workshop or presentation: emiliecollyer@gmail.com