“Belongs to a long line of yarn-spinners ... from Henry Lawson to Frank Hardy to Peter Carey”
— SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
 

Joel Deane is a poet, novelist, journalist and speechwriter. He has worked in newspapers, television, politics, and internet startups in Australia and the United States. He now lives in Melbourne and works as a freelance writer. 

He can be contacted via email.

Publications

Anthologies

  • Finding My Feet: An Anthology of Poetic Voices, 2024.

  • Australian Poetry Anthology 2023.

  • Best Australian Poems 2016.

  • Australian Poetry Anthology 2016.

  • Thirty Australian Poets (2011). 

  • Best Australian Poems 2008. 

Awards

  • Short-listed for the John Bray Poetry Award, 2018.

  • Won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, 2017.

  • Short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, 2017.

  • Short-listed for the Judith Wright Literary Award, 2017.

  • Finalist for the Walkley Book Award, 2015.

  • Finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, 2009.

  • Short-listed for the Anne Elder Award, 2006.

  • Won the IP Picks Prize for an unpublished poetry manuscript, 2005.

  • Won the IP Picks Prize for an unpublished fiction manuscript, 2004.

  • Runner up for Young Victorian Journalist of the Year Award, 1990.