Sandra Renew
Sandra Renew has international, national and local publication of her work in journals and anthologies, as hard copy and on-line. She has a local and national reputation as a performance poet and was a featured poet at the National Folk Festival Spoken Word for three years from 2017 to 2019.
Sandra also writes short form prose and micro-lit and was a finalist for both the 2018 and 2019 joanne burns Microlit Award.
She is experimenting with using traditional forms to write about LGBTIQ presence in the world with the express aim of upsetting the order of the social order.
It’s the sugar, Sugar is her fourth collection after Acting Like a Girl (Recent Work Press 2019), The Orlando Files (Ginninderra Press 2018) and Who Sleeps at Night (Ginninderra Press 2017).
One Last Border: Poetry for refugees was co-written as a fundraising project with Hazel Hall and Moya Pacey (Ginninderra Press 2015)
Sandra is a founding editor, with Moya Pacey, of Not Very Quiet an online journal for women’s poetry and co-hosts the Not Very Quiet women’s poetry nights at Smith’s Alternative. Sandra and Moya were awarded a Canberra Critics Circle Award for their influential contribution to women’s poetry in 2019.
