Siall Waterbright is a writer and artist working across prose, poetry, graphic narrative and visual art, and an academic working in critical cultural theory and philosophy. Siall's work concerns the way language and images create self and relationships, with attention to sex and gender, ability and disability, health and wellness, age and belonging. Siall's work has been exhibited in the Brisbane Powerhouse and commercial galleries in Australia and the United States. Siall's poetry and fiction has been published in literary journals including Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review, Island Magazine and Wet Ink.

 

In 2020, Siall's autofiction manuscript, As We Knew It, was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Glendower Award. In 2017,The Coming, Siall's short story collection manuscript, was shortlisted for the same award, then called the Queensland Literary Awards Emerging Queensland Writer Award.

 

Siall's poetry manuscript, Orison, was highly commended in the Thomas Shapcott Prize.  Siall was awarded the Special Prize for Excellence in Prose and Poetry in the Josephine Ulrick Prize, as runner-up in both the Prose and Poetry Prizes. Siall's work has also been shortlisted for the Peter Carey Short Story Award, longlisted in the Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Prize, and awarded third place in the Val Vallis Prize.

 

Siall has a PhD in creative writing from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and is currently undertaking a second PhD research project in graphic narrative at Australian National University. Siall received a Bachelor of Arts from New College of Florida and a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Honours) from QUT. 

 

Siall is also currently working on a collection of poetry, which was shortlisted for the Westerly Writers' Development Program and for which Siall received a Varuna Residential Fellowship.