BELLE BUTLER
writing bio
Belle's short fiction has been published in numerous literary journals and her novel manuscript 'River' has received multiple awards. She recently participated in an awarded place in the 2021 WestWords Academy, and she was a recipient of the 2022 WestWords Emerging Writers Fellowship with mentor, Delia Falconer.
She is currently a writer with the Planetary Health Initiative in the Blue Mountains, Australia.
WRITING CV
PUBLICATIONS
All Planetary Health Initiative articles can be found here: Local News, Local Stories | Mid Mountains Local News (midmtnslocalnews.com)
2023 The Task, Mounted Ari
2022 That Day You Asked, WestWords Living Stories
2021 Prevailing Wind, Westerly Magazine, UWA Publishing
2021 The Dunes, WestWords Living Stories
2019 A Kindness, Blume Illustrated
2013 Hot Water Bottle, ‘Untitled’, Busybird Publishing
2013 Wind at the Polls, ‘Flashers’, Seizure online
2012 On a Sunday, Highly commended in poetry competition and published in ‘Tango Australis’
2011 Ostwaren, ‘The Famous Reporter’, Walleah press
2011 Community Service, ‘Vibewire’, online
2011 One Quiet Beer, ‘FourW Twenty-two New Writing’, fourWpress
2010 The Fowlers, ‘FourW Twenty-one New Writing’, fourWpress
2010 Littoral, ‘Southerly 70/2’, Southerly
2010 In the Window, Get Reading, postcards distributed around Australia, an Australia Council initiative
2009 In a Small Patch of Jungle, ‘Island 119’, Island
2009 Filthy Things, ‘FourW Twenty New Writing’, fourWpress
2008 All too Unsaid, ‘FourW Nineteen New Writing’, fourWpress
AWARDS
2022 regional winner for That Day You Asked, WestWords Living Stories
2021-2022 WestWords Emerging Writers Fellowship for River. Mentor Delia Falconer.
2021 short story The Dunes - highly commended in WestWords Living Stories Competition
2021 Awarded a place in WestWords Academy
2020 Awarded a place in Queensland Writers Centre Publishable Program for River
2018 Awarded a place at the 2019 Queensland Writers Centre/Hachette Manuscript Development Program for River
2013 Runner up in NSW Writers’ Centre Varuna Fellowship for River
2013 Highly commended in ASA Mentorship for River
2010 Recipient of The Seed Grant for Intersections – a written narrative and public photographic exhibition on the lives of Sydney’s homeless windscreen washers. projectintersections.weebly.com
OTHER
December 2022-now – Writer with the Planetary Health Initiative, Blue Mountains.
October 2012 – curator, facilitator and speaker at ‘Words and Music’ panel discussion, NSW Writers’ Centre, with guests Simon Tadeschi and Deborah Dicembre.
May 2012 – Invited speaker at ‘Words and Music’ panel discussion at Sydney Writers’ Festival.
2010-2013 – Vice-chair of arts literary organisation Word Travels, founder of the Australian Poetry Slam.