Author: Sandra Renew

Sandra Renew’s poetry has been awarded two Canberra Critics Circle Awards, one in 2023 for Apostles of Anarchy (Recent Work Press, 2023), and in 2019, with Moya Pacey ‘for their influential work in exposing Canberra women’s poetry to view through their biannual online journal for women’s poetry, Not Very Quiet 2017-2022.’

Sandra’s collection, It’s the sugar, Sugar (Recent Work Press, 2021) won the ACT Writers Notable Awards for Poetry 2021. Acting Like a Girl (Recent Work Press, 2019) was the winner of the 2020 ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Poetry, and was also shortlisted for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year.

She writes on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land (Canberra) and Yuin land (Cobargo).