Kris Kneen

KRIS KNEEN is the award-winning author of fiction, poetry, film and non-fiction. The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen is their latest book.

They have previously been published under the name Krissy Kneen.

Publications:

Swallow the Sound a short collection of stories (eatbooks 2007)

Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy (Text Publishing 2009)

Triptych: An Erotic Adventure (Text Publishing 2011)

Steeplechase; a novel (Text Publishing 2013)

The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine  2015 Text Publishing

Eating my Grandmother: A Grief Cycle   Poetry (UQP 2015)

Stranger in the Dark; A story in 12 emails (The Lifted Brow 2017)

An Uncertain Grace; a novel (Text Publishing 2017)

Wintering; a novel (Text Publishing 2018)

Film and Television:

The Truth About Dragonhall 2002 (Gabrielle Jones / ABC TV) Half hour TV documentary – writer / director

Escape from the Planet of the Tapes 2001 (Big Island Pictures / SBS Television) half hour TV documentary – co-writer and co-director

Love Weights 2001 (Big Island Pictures / SBS Television) half hour TV drama – co-writer

Rubber Gloves 2000 (Chapman Films) short film – co-writer

Two Roads to Helidon 1999 (Big Island Pictures / SBS Television) half hour TV documentary co-writer and co-director

Short fiction:

I have had short stories published in The Lifted Brow; Stilts Magazine; Bumf; Scum Magazine; Big Issue Fiction Edition; Griffith Review; Island Magazine; Best Women’s Erotica 2013; The Great Unknown; #NastyWomenEverywhere; Destroying the Joint (UQP 2017)

Non-fiction:

I have had non-fiction published in The Weekend Australian; Archer Magazine; nerve.com; Rebellious Daughters; Writing Qld; Newswrite; It Happened on A Fishing Trip (ed Paddy O'Reilly, Affirm Press); Sincerely, Women of Letters (ed Michaela Mcguire and Marieke Hardy); The Sydney Morning Herald; Debrief Daily; Writer's Bloc

Awards and Prizes (Literature):

An Uncertain Grace

           Shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize

           Shortlisted for the 2018 Aurealis Award

Eating My Grandmother: A Grief Cycle

            Winner of the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize 2014

Affection:

            Shortlisted for the Qld Premier’s Literary Awards for Non-fiction 2010

            Shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards for Biography 2010

            Second Place in the Josephine Ulrich Literary Award 2010

Paper Dolls Holding Hands  manuscript

Shortlisted for The Qld Premier’s Literary Awards for Emerging manuscript in 2007

His Father’s Son  manuscript

Shortlisted for The Qld Premier’s Literary Awards for Emerging manuscript in 2005

A Little Death manuscript

Shortlisted for The Qld Premier’s Literary Awards for Emerging manuscript in 2003

Awards and Prizes (Film):

Escape from the Planet of the Tapes (2002)

Winner Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2004 – best short documentary

Winner Woodford Film Festival 2004 – Best Film

Winner Qld New Filmmaker’s Awards 2003 – Best Film (open)

Winner Woodford Film Festival 2002 – Best Drama and Audience Award

Love Weights (2001)

Official Competition Locarno International Film Festival 2002

Official Competition Flickerfest 2002

Official Competition Aspen Shortsfest 2001

Official Competition St Kilda Film Festival 2001

Teaching

I have run workshops in creative writing since 1990. I was the artistic director of sNOT ARTs, Inala Youth Arts Company from 1990-1995 running regular arts, writing and film making workshops in a community context. I have run community based writing workshops in detention centres, psychiatric facilities, and in community centres and organisations.

In the past 5 years I have run writing workshops for emerging and established writers at QWC, NSWWC, VICWC, Sydney Writers Festival, the Eye Of The Storm Festival, Byron Bay Writers Festival, and in suburban libraries and community centres around Brisbane, Tasmania and Victoria.

My workshops have focussed on Writing Erotic Fiction, Writing Memoir, Writing Sensual Prose, Writing your book in a year Writing Novellas and the Visual ot of Writing.