*Em König lives and works primarily on stolen Kaurna country. Always was, always will be.*
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Education
PhD Candidate – Creative Writing
The University of Adelaide (expected completion in 2020)
BA (First Class Honours) – Creative Writing
The University of Adelaide (completed in 2017)
Published Works
Chapbooks
“Lightly, on the Skin” (2018). In Case of Emergency Press. Print.
Full Length Collections
“Breathing Plural” (coming in 2020, Cordite Books)
Works in Journals, Periodicals & Anthologies (selected)
“The Birds”. Meniscus 6:2 (2018). Web.
“Blunt”. Queer Modern Poets. Pilot Press. London. 2019. Print.
“Cellular Porno”. Pink Cover Zine 2 (2018). Web.
“A Christmas Poem on Mirtazapine”. One Surviving Poem. In Case of Emergency Press. 2019.
“Control”. Malevolent Soap 1 (2017). Malevolent Soap. Print.
“Faggot Poem”. Rabbit (2021). Print.
“Gender: Fuck”. Pink Cover Zine 2 (2018). Web.
“Googling Christchurch”. SWAMP 24 (2019). Web.
https://www.swampwriting.com/?page_id=717
“Herpes”. In Your Hands Anthology. Red Room Poetry. 2020. Web.
“Imagining Icarus”. Pink Cover Zine 1 (2017). Web.
https://pinkcoverzine.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/pinkcoverdigital1.pdf
“Ligneous Fellers”. Modern Queer Poets. Pilot Press. London. 2019. Print
“Lungs..”. SWAMP (2018). Web.
http://www.swampwriting.com/?page_id=666
“No Such Thing”. Meniscus 5:1 (2017). Web. http://www.meniscus.org.au/Meniscus%205.1.pdf
“Put Your Ear to These Words”. Raining Poetry in Adelaide (2018).
“River II”. Pink Cover Zine 4 (2019). Print.
“Rock”. Cordite 89: DOMESTIC (2019). Web.
http://cordite.org.au/poetry/domestic/rock/
“Stole”. Meniscus 6:2 (2018). Web.
“Synonyms for Womblike”. Cordite 91: No Theme VIII (2019). Web.
http://cordite.org.au/poetry/notheme8/synonyms-for-womblike/
“testosterone”. Cordite 88: TRANSQUEER (2018). Web.
http://cordite.org.au/poetry/transqueer/testosterone/
“Wasting days hunting”. Raining Poetry in Adelaide
“Woomera”. Cordite 92: Peach (2019). Web.
http://cordite.org.au/poetry/peach/woomera/
“Yes”. Cordite 90: Monster (2019). Web.
http://cordite.org.au/poetry/monster/yes/
“Yes”. Rabbit (2020) Print.
Selected performances / collaborations / events
2021
‘Exosmosis’ (sound designer/performer) – collaborative performance with Virginia Barratt – presented by Illuminate Adelaide in collaboration with Samstag and SASA Gallery.
Emerging Writer’s Festival (invited contributor) – Playlist:Love online event
Telepathic Traces parcours exhibition (invited contributor) – “No Sage” sounds installation – oracle (Brussels, Belgium)
FELTlive performance event (tech nurse, documentation) – Geobody : Coregulation by Virginia Barratt and Lauren Abineri – RUMPUS, Adelaide.
2020
Fine Print Magazine Live Issue (invited performer) – “If the Future is to be Worth Anything” – ACE Open, Adelaide
FELTExchange (invited contributor) – Exchange with visual artist Olivia Kathigitis – FELT Space, Adelaide
‘Breathing Plural’ Book Launch – No Wave Poetry Readings – The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide
0racle Telepathic Retreat – remote sound collaboration – Oracle (Belgium)
Raining Poetry in Adelaide (organising commitee member) – JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Adelaide
2019
SALA Festival (invited performer) – ‘The Scene is the Seen poetry night’ – Holy Rollers Studios, Adelaide
Emerging Writer’s Festival (invited performer) – ‘Vanishing Ecologies’ event – Brunswick Mechanics Institute, Melbourne
Raining Poetry in Adelaide (organising committee member) – JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Adelaide
‘No Wave’ Poetry Reading (regularly invited performer) – The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide
2018
‘Readings After Dark’ Poetry Reading (invited performer) – The Howling Owl, Adelaide
Raining Poetry in Adelaide (organising committee member) – JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, Adelaide
‘No Wave’ Poetry Reading (regularly invited performer) – The Wheatsheaf Hotel, Adelaide
2016
Queering the Museum (invited contributor) – South Australian Migration Museum, Adelaide
2015
‘How to Throw Mud’ Poetry Reading (invited performer) – FEAST Queer Arts Festival, Adelaide
Performance (GIRL/Winter Witches)
MASConfessional – Durational performance work developed at Vitalstatistix/Performance Space (Day for Night). 2019.
Masc – Sound-based performance piece in development throughout 2019 at Adelaide Festival Centre, pvi Collective, the SUBSTATION, Brunswick Mechanics Institute and the Mill.
Sentients – Sound- based performance piece commissioned as part of Vitalstatix’s ‘Climate Century’ project. (2016-2018) – funded by Arts SA and Australia Council.
The Unspeakable Clothes Tour – Winter Witches national tour (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Nimbin, Adelaide). (2017/18) – funded by Arts SA.
Awards/Grants
2021 Arts SA Arts Recovery Fund grant – Exosmosis by sadworm (Em König + Virginia Barratt)
2021 Arts SA Literature grant – manuscript development for ‘Woomera’
2021 Red Room Poetry Fellowship shortlist
2020 People’s Choice Award for best Experimental (Nina in Ecstasy) – South Australian Music Awards (nominated)
2019 People’s Choice Award for best Experimental Group (GIRL) – South Australian Music Awards (nominated)
2017 JM Coetzee Prize
2016 John Harvey Finlayson Prize for Creative Writing
2016 Sir Archibald Strong Memorial Prize for Literature
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