Veronica Sullivan is the Head of Programming at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. She is a board member of Overland literary journal and a member of the Custodial Committee of the Kat Muscat Fellowship.
Veronica is a member of the City of Port Phillip’s Cultural Development Fund Reference Committee. She has also worked as Program Manager and a Board member of the Feminist Writers Festival, Prize Manager of the Stella Prize, and Online Editor of Kill Your Darlings journal. She was a regular columnist for Books+Publishing magazine in 2020, writing on the Australian publishing industry.
Veronica co-founded Sisteria, a podcast about women and non-binary creatives’ experiences as creators and consumers of arts and culture. From 2016-2019, she co-hosted Sisteria with Stephanie Van Schilt, interviewing guests including Hannah Kent, Mojo Juju, Julie Koh, Candy Bowers, and Evelyn Ida Morris.
Veronica has been a peer assessor for Creative Victoria grant applications, sat on the Program Advisory Committee for RMIT University’s Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing), co-edited the Melbourne City of Literature’s Reading Victoria project, been a Creative Producer with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, and judged the Words & Ideas category of the Melbourne Fringe Festival awards. She was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, was selected for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s 30 Under 30 program in 2015, and was longlisted for the inaugural Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.
Her writing has been published by the Guardian, Overland, Right Now, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Junkee, Archer, Australian Poetry Journal, Going Down Swinging, Broadsheet Melbourne, the Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue and The Victorian Writer among others. She has reviewed books for 3RRR Breakfasters, and has been a guest on ABC Melbourne Afternoons, ABC Sydney Afternoons, ABC Radio National’s Books & Arts, 3RRR’s Multi-Storied and 2SER’s Final Draft.
Veronica has hosted events, given readings, appeared on panels or taught workshops at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Sydney Writers’ Festival, Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Small Press Network’s Independent Publishing Conference, National Young Writers’ Festival, Emerging Writers’ Festival, Digital Writers’ Festival, and at events run by Arts Centre Melbourne, City of Melbourne, Writers Victoria, Editors Victoria and Express Media.
She has guest lectured on topics including writing, publishing, editing and gender at the University of Melbourne, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology and Victoria University.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) with honours from RMIT University, and a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne, for which her thesis supervisor was Maria Tumarkin. She lives in Narrm (Melbourne).
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I acknowledge the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations, on whose land I live, and pay my respects to their elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.