Hayley Elliott-Ryan

Hayley Elliott-Ryan is a writer of fiction, poetry and performance works. She has completed a PhD at Deakin University in the area of narrative impasse, political ontologies and theories of bricolage, as well as on broader questions of waste, excess, currency, and interventionist narratological methods. Published research has focused on community-generated texts and the impact of neoliberal policy on traditional industry.

With Antonia Pont, she founded c i n d e r journal which publishes articles in the areas of writing, and creative expression for HDRs/ECRs, and is ongoing co-managing editor. She also founded the Deakin magazine Wordly, which is now in its seventh year of regular publication, as the central in-house outlet for emerging Deakin writers.

She has been shortlisted for the Right Now poetry prize and the Judith Rodriguez Writing Award.

When she’s not writing you can find her hanging out on jetties catching squid.

Here is the link to c i n d e r: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/cinder/index