tim loveday

Tim Loveday is an award-winning poet, writer, educator and baby academic. His work explores class, masculinity, online radicalisation and rural communities reckoning with climate collapse. He won the 2022 & 2024 Dorothy Porter Poetry Awards, the 2025 Calanthe Collective poetry prize and the 2023 Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Award, came runner-up in the 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the 2023 David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize, the 2024 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Prize, the 2024 Best Australian Yarn, the 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Prize.

Tim has 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 AND 2025 mprng air residential fellowship. He has received grants from writers Australia, yarra city arts and city of Melbourne arts.

His poetry & prose has appeared in Meanjin, Overland, APJ, APA, rabbit, Australian book review, 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 ongoing curator and host of the Winter Warmers Poetry reading series through readings bookstores. he has facilitated writing workshops for organisations such as Melbourne City Libraries, FBi Radio and writers’ Victoria. Tim teaches creative writing at rmit and unimelb.  

A Neurodivergent dog parent, he is the verse editor for XR’s Creative Hub, a member of RMIT PWE’s Industry Advisory Council and the director of Curate||Poetry: where word arts meets visual art. Tim is currently shopping his poetry collection bad westerns and his eco-literary fiction novel fevers the stillness.

Originally from regional NSW, Tim currently resides in North Fitzroy, 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.