ABOUT

Simmone Howell is an award-winning writer, researcher and educator based in Melbourne. She holds a PhD  in Creative Writing from La Trobe University. Simmone's non-fiction is published in the Age Spectrum/SMH and the literary journals Island, Kill Your Darlings, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. Simmone writes about movies, houses, pop culture and 20th century nostalgia. 

Simmone's YA novels are published in Australia, UK, North America, Amsterdam, Brazil and Germany. Notes from the Teenage Underground was a CBCA Notable book, and won the inaugural Gold Inky award for best teenage fiction and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for YA fiction. Take Three Girls, a collaborative novel with Fiona Wood and Cath Crowley won the 2018 CBCA Book of the year. It was also short-listed for the Gold Inky, the Indie Book Awards and was selected for the White Ravens International Youth Library Catalogue. Everything Beautiful was a finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Best Writing, shortlisted for the Inky Awards and Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Girl Defective was a finalist in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, shortlisted for the Gold Inky and the Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards for Women's Crime Fiction. In 2021, it was selected for the Adaptable Program through Queensland Writing Centre.

Simmone has received grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria,  Melbourne City of Literature and the Copyright Agency. She was awarded a Varuna fellowship in 2017, and has undertaken writing residencies at The Varda Artists Residency (Sausalito), and the Ionion Centre for the Arts, (Kefalonia).

Simmone has taught creative writing sessionally at La trobe University and Melbourne University. She is currently teaching in the RMIT Professional Writing and Editing Associate Diploma. She has taught for The Faber Academy, and since 2007 has participated as a panelist/presenter/writing tutor in high schools, universities, libraries and community centres and literary festivals.

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