The H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship for 2014 has been awarded to artist and writer Kim Mahood. She takes up the fellowship as a writer, and will be offering a program of undergraduate and post graduate  workshops and lectures on writing creative non-fiction, mapping oral histories and grappling research into accessible language.

Kim is the author of the award-winning non-fiction work Craft for a Dry Lake, and more recently has written on issues about remote Indigenous Australia, where she works for several months each year. Her essays are published in Griffith Review, Meanjin and Best Australian Essays, and she was awarded the 2013 Peter Blazey Fellowship for a non-fiction work in progress, Position Doubtful, which she plans to complete during the fellowship. She will also facilitate a field trip to the Tanami/Great Sandy Desert region with a group of artists associated with the ANU, including Head of Sculpture Wendy Teakel, lecturer David Jensz and alumni Noelene Lucas, Rachel Bowak and Sally Simpson.

Kim is hosted by the ANU School of Art, and will be in residence throughout Semsester one and the second term of Semester two.

» Read more about Kim Mahood and the Creative Fellowship from the College of Arts and Social Sciences