Linda Weste

Linda Weste is an Australian poet. She has a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne where she teaches poetry. Her debut work of fiction, 'Nothing Sacred', an historical verse novel set in the late Roman Republic, won the 2016 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and was highly commended in the 2015 Anne Elder Award. Other poems and poem cycles have been published in 'Westerly' (University of Western Australia Press) and 'Best Australian Poetry' (University of...See more

Linda Weste is an Australian poet. She has a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne where she teaches poetry. Her debut work of fiction, 'Nothing Sacred', an historical verse novel set in the late Roman Republic, won the 2016 Wesley Michel Wright Prize, and was highly commended in the 2015 Anne Elder Award. Other poems and poem cycles have been published in 'Westerly' (University of Western Australia Press) and 'Best Australian Poetry' (University of Queensland Press). Weste is a former Reviews Editor for 'TEXT Journal' (Australasian Association of Writing Programs), and a reviewer of poetry for Australia Council-funded journals. See less