About Asha

Asha Rajan is a writer and editor who lives and creates on Whadjuk, Noongar boodjar, land which was never ceded. She acknowledges with respect the elders and custodians; the first storytellers, songwriters and poets of this land.

Asha has been a Contributing Editor at the online writing community, YeahWrite, since December 2016. She is also a judge for various Super Challenge competitions for YeahWrite. Asha was an editor at the online literary micro-essay blog, Dead Housekeeping, from January 2015 to May 2020. She became the Managing Editor at Dead Housekeeping in May 2020; a position she continues to hold.

Asha is also a freelance editor who’s interested in a wide variety of editing projects.

Zoom or In-Person Events

Coffee and Grief: Coffee Talk #39 (reading) [October 6, 2022 10am AWST (UTC+8)]

Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Flash and Micro Fiction [September/October, 2022]

YeahWrite Scarlet Quill Society: “Sensitivity Readers” (panel discussion – recorded) [July, 2022]

Society of Women Writers WA, Wednesday Writing Class: Creative Non-Fiction (workshop/class) [June, 2022]

Death Rattle: “Literally Crawling” (poetry reading) [November 5, 2021]

Unchaste Readers: Unchaste Variety Show (poetry reading) [May 29, 2021]

Publications & Awards

Marj Wilke Short Story Award 2022, Women Writers Queensland (highly commended)

Death in the Funeral Parlour (short/flash)

The Drabble

New Beginnings, Old Endings (flash fiction)

Portside Review, Issue 7

Wild Goose (flash fiction)

Mountain Bluebird Magazine, Issue 1

The Perils of Caring (poem)

100 Word Project

Haunted House (micro fiction)

Instantáneas de Ficción Vol. 3

Translated into Spanish: The Innocence of Mabel Cunderdin and Charlie

Brushstrokes II (anthology)

Matriliny (poem)

Grieve 2021 (anthology)

My Father’s Hands (poem)

Underground Writers Zine Issue #34 (Fan Fiction)

You Can Have it All (poem)

Rabbit #32 (Form)

Boys Standing on a Footpath (poem)

Society of Women Writers WA:

Bronze Quill Award 2020 (winner)

Thirteen Ways to Count Your Chickens (poem)

A Sense of Place (2020 – anthology)

The Summer People

The Cyberettes (2021 – anthology)

Timothy and the Crocodile

Peril Magazine

The Gradual Disappearance of Ambika Krishnan: Before Ambika could read words, she read her mother.

Heroines Women’s Writing Prize 2020: The Neo Perennial Press

Highly Commended (Short Fiction)

Ellipsis Zine

Charlie: The day my oldest son ran away from home, a wedge-tailed eagle took up residence in his room. Nobody knew where it had come from, or where he had gone.