About Asha
Asha Rajan is a South Indian (Malayalee)-Australian 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 was a Contributing Editor at the online writing community, YeahWrite and a judge for various Super Challenge competitions. 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.
Asha is also a freelance editor who’s interested in a wide variety of editing projects.
Publications
Charter Hall (Raine Square Perth) Story Dispenser: Wild Goose | Charter Hall (Raine Square Perth) Story Dispenser: Learning to Swim | Queensland Writers Centre QPoetry! Chapbook: Mother Load | Cordite Poetry Review 112: Treat | Ourselves: 100 Micro Memoirs | Portside Review: Issue Twelve |The Ekphrastic Review | The Drabble | Portside Review: Issue Seven | Mountain Bluebird Magazine, Issue 1 | 100 Word Project | Instantáneas de Ficción Vol. 3 | Brushstrokes II (anthology) | Grieve 2021 (anthology) | Underground Writers Zine Issue #34 (Fan Fiction) | Rabbit #32 (Form) | A Sense of Place (2020 – anthology) | The Cyberettes (2021 – anthology) | Peril Magazine | Ellipsis Zine | Modern Loss | [PANK] | It Starts With Hope | SheKnows | Dead Housekeeping
Prizes
Stuart and Hadow Short Story Prize 2023 (second place) | The Masters Review Reprint Prize 2023 (longlist) | The Ros Spencer Poetry Prize 2023 (accepted for publication in Brushstrokes IV) | Marj Wilke Short Story Award 2022, Women Writers Queensland (highly commended) | Society of Women Writers WA: Bronze Quill Award 2020 (winner) | Heroines Women’s Writing Prize 2020: The Neo Perennial Press (highly commended)
In Person
Upcoming:
The Motherhood Collective presents Poems from the Nest
September 21, 4:00 pm
Midland Junction Arts Centre
Past:
From M/Other Tongue [images by Brett Leigh Dicks]
Profile image credit: Kelly Hammond Photography
Header image credit: Jess Gately
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