CV.

saraid taylor.
               (b.) melbourne, australia, 1998.

management: lauren@stellaathletes.com

EDUCATION.

2017 – 2020

bachelor of fine arts (screenwriting), the victorian college of the arts, the university of melbourne.

2016

east doncaster secondary college (95.25)

WRITING.

2023

longlisted for the Griffith Review's 2023 Emerging Voices competition: the road of ghosts

shortlisted for the 2023 Varuna Residential Fellowships

panellist at the emerging writers’ festival: Re-Forming the Field

panellist at the national young writers’ festival

presenter at the wheeler centre’s telling tales series: Sports Shorts: From the Field to the Page

2022

winner of the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize: the labeller

recipient of a Scribe Varuna Fellowship: (withdrawn)

winner of the questions writing prize 2022: The Orange

longlisted for The 2022 Kat Muscat Fellowship

shortlisted for the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing: sugar skin

shortlisted for The Alan Marshall Short Story Award: the intricacy of magpies

shortlisted for the Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize: The Orange

shortlisted for the djillong short story competition: the face paintings

published in island online: the turkeys

published in first word journal: the cupboard of hoods

panellist at the national young writers’ festival: The Erotic Is…

2021

shortlisted for the gloria anderlini x fellowship of australian writers queensland memoir competition: the cracks

2020

shortlisted for the lord mayor’s creative writing awards in memoir: fungus skies

recipient of a mentorship with film art media x sue maslin (the dressmaker)

recipient of an australian writers’ guild mentorship prize with elise mccredie (stateless)

2018

published in questions online journal issue 05: the river boys

2017

shortlisted for the somerset national novella competition: everlasting jack fleeting

finalist for the cya writers and illustrators conference awards in novel manuscript: taming indicah wild

2016

joint winner of the future leaders future justice award

shortlisted for the lane cove literary awards

+ published in the lane cove literary awards anthology

2015

shortlisted with honourable mention for the lord mayor’s creative writing awards in novella: everlasting jack fleeting

winner of the united kingdom youth writing competition

2014

winner of the cathy cassidy writing competition: peaches

finalist for the yarra bend press / nmit short story prize: the dust

+ published in the yarra bend press / nmit short story prize anthology: time to write

2013

finalist in the western union writers / wyndham city libraries writing prize

+ shortlisted in the western union writers / wyndham city libraries writing prize

winner of the cathy cassidy writing competition: moose

shortlisted for the junior author awards

2012

finalist for the gold coast writer’s association under-seventeen short story prize: the fairy

television

our watch x vice australia (pedestrian tv), panellist

the weekly with charlie pickering (abc): ‘incentivising vaccines’, extra

australian open advertisment, extra

libra ‘womenkind’ campaign, speaking

modelling

australian laser & skin clinic summer campaign

redcross ‘lifeblood’ launch

national gallery of victoria charity gala

westfield doncaster spring campaign

tunstall square christmas campaign

film

script supervisor, short film, selina zhang (vca)

script supervisor; extra, short film, mark lasky-davison (vca)

voice-over, documentary, steph jc (rmit)

voice-over, animation, bree ramsay (vca)

main, short film, bridget doyle (vca)

extra, short film, bridget doyle (vca)

extra, short film, ben head (vca)