tim loveday

Tim Loveday is an award-winning poet, writer, EDITOR and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation and rural communities reckoning with climate collapse. He’s won the wergle flomp poetry prize (2026), the Calanthe Collective poetry prize (2025), THE highland poetry prize (2025), the Dorothy Porter Poetry Award (2022 & 2024), the Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award (2023) and come came runner-up in the Cloncurry Poetry Prize (2024). He’s been a a finalist in the David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize (2023), the Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize (2024 & 2026), the Best Australian Yarn (2024), the Montreal International Poetry Prize (2024) and the Dorothy Hewett Unpublished manuscript Prize (2025), among many others.

His debut collection of poetry your father was a bastard will be published by UQP in 2027. You can read about this acquisition here.

Tim is currently shopping around his fiction novel ashfall.

He’s been the recipient of a 2021 Next Chapter Fellowship through the Wheeler centre, a 2021 Varuna Residential fellowship, a 2022 Bundanon Residential fellowship, a 2022 Writing Space Fellowship, a 2024 KSP RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIP, 2025 mprng air residential fellowship and 2025 Writing space fellowship. He has received grants from writers Australia, yarra city arts and city of Melbourne arts. He recently spent three months travelling the U.S. attending MFA summer writing programs and conferences, including the prestigious Iowa writers’ workshop.

His poetry & prose has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, APJ, APA, rabbit, Australian book review, kill your darlings, Island, The Griffith Review, Going Down Swinging, Cordite, Suburban Review, Mascara, The Big Issue, The Big Smoke, Text, Meniscus and The Victorian Writer, among many others.

Tim is the poetry editor at Island Magazine. He’s also the ongoing curator and host of Friday Night Poets reading series through readings bookstores, and regularly curates and produces events for organisations across naarm/melbourne. he has facilitated writing workshops for organisations such as writers’ Victoria, Melbourne City Libraries and FBi Radio, as well as FOR festivals such as pERTH pOETRY FESTIVAL, Island Readers and writers festival and words in winter. Tim teaches creative writing at unimelb and rmit.  

A Neurodivergent dog parent, he is the verse editor for XR’s Creative Hub, a member of both RMIT PWE’s and CW Industry Advisory Councils and the director of Curate||Poetry: where word arts meets visual art.

Originally from regional NSW, Tim currently resides in Melbourne, the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people, where he completed RMIT’s Honours in Creative Writing (First Class) and RMIT’s Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing, receiving the Vice-Chancellor’s List Award for both. With a passion for disability, Tim also has a Bachelor Degree in Disability and Inclusive Education from ACU. He is a current creative writing PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, where he is researching satirical representations of the manosphere.

As an avid fan of the full stop, he’s afraid of sentences longer than 6 words; this bio is trying.