Writing | Natalie D-Napoleon

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Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize

University of Southern Queensland

Natalie is the recipient of the 2018 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize for her poem "First Blood: A Sestina." She joins a distinquished list of past awardees including John Kinsella, Lisa Jacobson, and David Musgrave.

Read Natalie's winning poem here.

Poetry Book

First Blood

In First Blood, Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize winner Natalie D-Napoleon brings us a collection of poems that challenge our preconceptions of girlhood. (9781760417765) 74pp

Purchase the book here.

Poetry Chapbook

Border Crossings:

Immigration advice for those attempting to

cross borders

Border Crossings: Immigration advice for those attempting to cross borders, is a pamphlet of poetry as advice. Through erasure poetry Border Crossings asks questions about our how we define ourselves, raising issues about our tenuous understandings of nationality, borders and the circumstances of migration.

These are poems both created and found. Revealing and concealing.

OUT NOW through BLURB Books. Purchase the chapbook HERE.

Poetry Anthology

To Give Life a Shape:

Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To Give Life a Shape: Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art features poems by 41 Californian poets writing in response to works in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Natalie's poem - "Cementerio" - was inspired by a Graciela Iturbide photograph . Edited by David Starkey and Chryss Yost and published by Gunpowder Press. Purchase the book here.

Sculpture Poems

Los Cementeros 69 and Sound of Borders

Two of Natalie's erasure poems - "Los Cementeros 69" and "The Sound of Borders" - were published in Poetry WTF!'s Sculpture Poems edition. Read the poems here.

Poetry

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The Sting of the Little Things and The Grand Canyon at Midnight

Two of Natalie's poems - "The Sting of the Little Things" and "The Grand Canyon at Midnight" - were published in Literary Orphans. Read the poems here.

BIOGRAPHY

Natalie D-Napoleon is a writer, singer-songwriter and educator from Fremantle, Australia who now lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Natalie holds a MA in Writing from Swinburne University and currently works as a Coordinator at a Writing Center in a city college in California. Her poetry has appeared in Entropy, Literary Orphans, The Found Poetry Review, Southerly and Australian Poetry Journal.

In addition to he poetry, Natalie's essays and creative non-fiction have been published in Westerly, Meanjin, StylusLit, The Manifest-Station, LA Yoga Magazine, Larry Smith's The Best Advice in Six Words, and Writer's Digest.

She is a two-time finalist for the Penelope Niven Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and her poem 'First Blood' won the 2018 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize through the University of Southern Queensland.

In addition to her literay pursuits, Natalie is a singer-songwriter who has toured Australia, Europe and the United States - www.nataliednapoleon.net

AWARDS

First Blood: A Sestina

First Place | Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize | Australia

Bhreus

Winner | Annette Cameron Award for an Unpublished WA Poet | 2018 Katherine Susannah Pritchard Poetry Award | Australia

Whenever You Need to Start Again

Highly Commended | Annette Cameron Award for an Unpublished WA Poet | 2018 Katherine Susannah Pritchard Poetry Award | Australia

Border Crossings: Immigration advice for those attempting to cross borders

Finalist | 2018 Laurel Review Midwest Chapbook Prize | USA

Finding Napoleon

Finalist | Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award | 2018 International Literary Awards | USA

Crossing

Finalist | Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award | 2018 International Literary Awards | USA

First Blood: A Sestina

Second Place | 2017 Katherine Susannah Pritchard Poetry Award | Australia

The First Drug

Commended | 2017 Katherine Susannah Pritchard Poetry Award | Australia

PUBLICATIONS

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

Crossing

Meanjin

Three Ways to Awaken Your Mind to Poetic Thinking

Writer's Digest

Six Lessons Learned from a Year of 101 Rejections

Writer's Digest

Ungraspable Loss

The Squeeze

I Used to Believe in Magic

The Manifest-Station

ARTICLES

Farm Stay USA

Santa Barbara News-Press

Desert Art Magic

Santa Barbara News-Press

All You Need is Love

Santa Barbara News-Press

A Peddle Powered Van-cation

Santa Barbara News-Press

Street Food Fast

Santa Barbara News-Press

The Gaviota Coast: Last Jewel of Southern California

LA Yoga Magazine

Shaken To The Core

LA Yoga Magazine

POETRY

Syzygy

StylusLit (Issue 6)

Write an Island

Griffith Review (65)

No Box

Southerly Journal (Issue 78.2)

Family History

StylusLit (Issue 3)

Los Cementeros 69

Poetry WTF?!

I Hear Things

Australian Poetry Journal (Issue 7.2)

Cementerio (Cemetery)

To Give Life a Shape (Gunpowder Press)

oooO

Dream Pop!

The Sound of Borders

Poetry WTF?!

The Mouth is a Door

StylusLit (Issue 2)

Grains of Sand and Found

Found Poetry Review (Volume 10)

Found

Found Poetry Review (Volume 10)

Unborn, Fuzzy and Bird Song

Entropy Magazine

Short Skirts

Fem Static Zine (Issue 5)

Come Walk With Me

*82 Review (Issue 3.2)

Dert Rendezvous and Grains of Sand

Tincture Journal

Stories and Sand

Bukker Tillibul (Volume 8)

The Sting of the Little Things and The Grand Canyon at Midnight

Literary Orphans

EVENTS

FORTHCOMING

First Blood Book Launch - Fremantle

Saturday, 19 October 2019 | 6.30pm - 8.30pm

THREEO | 244 South Terrace, South Fremantle WA | Australia

Spring Into Poetry

Friday, 25 October 2019 | 6pm - 8pm

Albany Public Library | 221 York St, Albany WA | Australia

Perth Poetry Club

Saturday, 9 November 2019 | 2pm - 4pm

The Moon Cafe | 323 William St, Northbridge WA | Australia

First Blood Book Launch - Santa Barbara

Sunday, 12 January 2020 | TBA

Santa Barbara Public Library | 40 E Anapamu St, Santa Barbara CA | USA

PAST

15 - 18 August 2019

Perth Poetry Festival:

Thurs, 15 August 2019 | 7 - 10pm

Poetry Gala | Reading from featured poets

Queens Building | 97 William St, Perth | Australia

Fri, 17 August 2019 | 2 - 4 pm

Poetry Club | Reading

The Moon Cafe | 323 William St, Northbridge | Perth, Australia

Sat, 17 August 2019 | 7 - 10 pm

Multi-cultural/Multi-lingual Poetry Event

Queens Building | 97 William St, Perth | Australia

Sun, 18 August 2019 | 9.30 am - 11 am

Erasure Poetry Workshop

Queens Building | 97 William St, Perth | Australia

$25 waged/$20 unwaged | Book Here

Sun, 18 August 2019 | 7 - 10 pm

Festival Finale

Queens Building | 97 William St, Perth | Australia

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NATALIE D-NAPOLEON

Writer | Poet | Musician

News

Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize

Poetry Book

Poetry Chapbook

Poetry Anthology

Sculpture Poems

Poetry

BIOGRAPHY

AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

EVENTS

CONTACT

To contact Natalie directly:

ndnapo at gmail [dot] com

For press and media inquiries and material:

News

Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize

Poetry Book

Poetry Chapbook

Poetry Anthology

Sculpture Poems

Poetry

BIOGRAPHY

AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS

EVENTS

CONTACT

To contact Natalie directly:

ndnapo at gmail [dot] com

For press and media inquiries and material:

bld.personal@gmail.com