Monika Schott

Monika Schott is a Melbourne based writer and researcher. Life’s intricacies and curiosities inspire her to write and give voice to stories that haven’t been heard.

Monika writes and researches isolated and abject communities. She once practised as a metal artist and painter and as such, writes like an artist creating texture on metal or canvas. 

Monika’s interested in industrial heritage, and interpreting the stories of these past communities before they’re lost forever. She wrote the social history of Melbourne’s first sewerage farm community as part of her PhD research into sewerage ghost towns and how these communities flourish in their abject margins. Her historical novel, The faraway land of the house and two cows, and song, A land faraway, will be released in 2021. 

Monika was shortlisted in the Ada Cambridge Writing Prize and won the inaugural Wyndham Rotary Arts Small Business Award. She has had several short stories published in anthologies, and presents and delivers workshops regularly around the world.

PhD: A New Understanding Of Abject Communities Through Sewerage Ghost Towns (2020)