A Melbourne-based writer working across disciplines to explore life, language, art, and all the things that interconnect us.
Intro
Ange Crawford is a queer, autistic writer based in Naarm/Melbourne. Currently a PhD candidate in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT, she holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology, Honours 1) from Bond University and a Master of Arts (Writing) from Swinburne University of Technology. Her award-winning debut novel for young adults, How to Be Normal, was published by Walker Books in 2025. She has published shorter works across many genres, such as digital poetry, reviews, fiction and feature articles. She works as an editor and sessional academic, and she runs Seventh Gallery’s emerging writers’ program.
How to be normal
a YA contemporary novel, winner of the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize
(reviewed in Books+Publishing and by Readings)
(also shortlisted for the 2022 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing)
Echoes in a white room
an experimental non-fiction essay on writing published in Someone Like Me, an anthology of life writing by Autistic gender diverse and women writers, edited by Clem Bastow and Jo Case and published by UQP
Specifically generic: writing (as/in/of) liminal spaces
an academic paper on creative writing and liminal spaces presented at the 2024 Australasian Association of Writing Programs conference
Lightwell
a contrapuntal ekphrastic poem in response to Simone Hine’s video work Corridor, produced for the Emerging Writers’ Festival and Blindside Gallery event ‘Texting Images’, and written in situ in the Nicholas Building in Naarm
Partitions
a collaborative spatial writing/spatial audio work with sound artist Josh Peters, produced as part of the first series for Deco Radio, an audio journal
Bless this mess
an essay in response to Paul Yore’s exhibition WORD MADE FLESH, with embedded digital poems and experimental writings, published in the Writing in the Expanded Field IV publication: Touching Feeling Writing, through ACCA and RMIT non/fictionLab
Lateral thoughts
an experimental non-fiction poem published in Rabbit non-fiction poetry journal, issue 35 (Architecture)
Backwards, forwards
a segment on episode #498 of All the Best; supervising producer: Ryan Pemberton; sound designer: Lee Yee
Phraser
Intrusive Thoughts workshop participant, contributing to PHRASER, a meta-algorithm developed by artist and psychoanalyst Sam Lieblich
Intermissions
the micro-fiction story Personal Effects appears in this short story anthology, published by Grattan Street Press, Melbourne
Detective Story
an interactive fiction story made with Twine, created after participation in the Plot Twist Narrative Games workshop, a finalist in the 2021 Freeplay Awards for Excellence in Narrative
ellipsis
an interactive poem in response to Ezz Monem’s Collectables, as part of the KINGS Artist-Run gallery’s Emerging Writers’ Program
Hope 2.0
a GIF poem, created from Lujayn Hourani’s Making Mobiles workshop with Free Association
Neighbour
a review of Neighbour, an exhibition by Amrita Hepi and Sam Lieblich, shown as part of ACCA Open 2020, published by un Extended
Anya
winner of the Short Story category of the 2020 Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award
From ‘feminine’ to fire
a personal essay on femininity and queer identity, published by Archer
Wild imaginings of truth
an essay on Elena Ferrante’s Incidental Inventions, published by Asymptote
Love/ author’s intent
a interactive digital poem and accompanying essay in response to MJ Flamiano’s exhibition The bone is the seed, as part of the 2019 Emerging Writers’ Program at SEVENTH Gallery
Girlfriends, gal pals or partners?
a personal essay on language and queer visibility, published by Archer
Call me Ange
a feature episode of All the Best, with supervising producer Bec Fary; recording, editing, mixing and sound design by Lee Yee; additional sound design elements by Amy Hanley
Hometowns
a short contribution to this episode of community radio show All the Best
By numbers: Adani
co-contributions to this article alongside Christine Ebbs and Edwina Sleigh as part of a 2017 internship with The Lifted Brow