Boundaries
-Tim Loveday
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Tim Loveday is an award winning poet, writer, educator and clown-lark. As the recipient of a 2021 Next Chapter Fellowship and 2022 Writing space Fellowship, his work explores class, masculinity, rurality and climate collapse. In 2024, he was long-listed for the Gwen Hardwood Poetry Prize, the Tom Collins Poetry Prize and the Cloncurry Poetry Prize; shortlisted for the Boyd Garret Residency; and commended in the MPU Poetry Prize. In 2023, Tim won the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, was shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, long-listed for the Wyndham Flash Fiction Award and the Local Word Poetry Award, and came runner up in The Kyogle Poetry Prize. In 2022 he won the Dorothy Porter Poetry Award and in 2021 was Highly Commended in the Southern Cross Short Story Award. His poetry & prose has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, The Griffith Review, Island, Going Down Swinging, Cordite, Suburban Review, Mascara, and The Big Issue, among many others. Notable features include Clementine Ford’s Conversations with men and Melbourne Spoken Word. A Neurodivergent dog parent, he is the verse editor for the Creative Hub of Extinction Rebellion and the director of Curate||Poetry. Tim teaches poetry and fiction in the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing, RMIT. He is a current PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Melbourne, where is researching satirical representations of the manosphere. You can find out more at: timloveday.com.
