ABOUT

Allis Hamilton is a creature of nature who creates poetry, visual art, and music.


Her poetry is published in journals and anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, France, Ireland,
and Scotland, such as The Poetry Review, Meanjin, Overland, Oxford Scohool of Poetry, Poetry Scotland, Southerly, and Westerly.

Allis was a finalist in the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and longlisted for the 2024 Bridport Poetry Prize and had two poems longlisted for 2024 National Poetry Competition

She has been a guest poet at festivals and readings in London, Canberra, Melbourne, and Canada (online); and has co-created poetry readings, and the Castlemaine Poetry Festival.


Allis was a finalist in the 2025 Waverley Woollahra Art School’s 9” x 5” Landscape Art Prize, and in the 2019 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing; a semifinalist in the 2022 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize; and longlisted for the 2019 Delphian Gallery Open Call, London.


She featured on BBC Radio 3’s improvised jazz programme, ‘Freeness’, 2020;
& on BBC Radio 4, World at One, when her composition for the Obsolete Sounds project was discussed in 2022.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2025– Finalist Waverley Woollahra 9” x 5" Landscape Art Prize, NSW

2024— Longlisted National Poetry Competition UK — two poems

2024— Longlisted Bridport Poetry Prize UK

2022— Semifinalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, NSW

2022— Finalist Montreal International Poetry Prize, Montreal, Canada

2019— Finalist Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, NSW

2019— Longlisted in the Delphian Gallery Open Call, London, UK

2017— Grant, Regional Arts Victoria, to attend Ledbury 3-day poetry residency & Ledbury Poetry Festival, UK

EXHIBITIONS

2025–- Waverley Woolahra 9“ x 5” Landscape Art Prize, Waverley NSW. — forthcoming

2025— Self & Place; Pencil & Brush, Solo Exhibition, Lot 19, Castlemaine, VIC — forthcoming

2025— Incognito Art Show, Sydney, NSW

2024 —Still Life, Healing Well, Castlemaine, Vic

2023— A Floral Poesy, Chewton Post Office, Chewton, Vic

2023— BigCi Open Day, BigCi, Bilpin, NSW

2019— Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Sydney, NSW

2019— Love Collage, group exhibition, Lot 19, Castlemaine, Vic

2019— A Suitcase of Eels, Group Exhibition, London Wetland Centre, London, UK

2019— A Suitcase of Eels, Group Exhibition, Natural History Museum, London, UK

2018 — Small Works from Big Places, Group Exhibition, Touring Regional Vic

2018— Mural, Retreat Farm, Dirnaseer, NSW

2017— Mural, Grong Grong Hotel, Grong Grong, NSW

2014— Drawings, Healing Well, Castlemaine, Vic

2014— Drawn-out Moments & Sketchy Lines, with Jinari Mountain, CASPA, Castlemaine, Vic

2014— Automata-3, Group Exhibition, Roxy Theatre, Leeton, NSW

2012— Herding Cats, Group Exhibition, CASPA Art Space, Castlemaine, Vic

2012— Exhibition at Jinari Mountain's Open Studio, Lot 19, Castlemaine, Vic

2011— I See You, Solo Exhibition, CASPA Art Space, Castlemine, Vic

2011— I See You, Solo Exhibition, St. Vincent's Hospital Gallery, Sydney, Vic

2009— Group Exhibition, Saffs Cafe, Castlemaine, Vic

2008— Group Exhibition, Saffs Cafe, Castlemaine, Vic

POETRY READINGS

2025– Launch Reading of Clarion Journal, UK, (online)

2024 — Agitation Hill Poetry Reading, Castlemaine, Vic

2024 — That Poetry Thing, Canberra, ACT

2023— Montreal International Poetry Prize reading, (online)

2023 — BigCi Open Day, Bilpin, NSW

2023— 'A Spell of Poetry and Song', Solo Show, Chewton, Vic

2022— Meanjin Summer 2022 launch, Grace Darling Hotel, Colllingwood, Vic

2020— Open Mic. Online, Ledbury Poetry Salon, Ledbury, Heredfordshire, UK

2020 —‘Freeness', improvised music programme on BBC Radio 3, UK

2020—Guest Poet, Poets of Humanity, aboard 'The Steve Irwin, Williamstown, Vic

2019— Guest Poet, The Write Stuff, Golden Vine, Bendigo

2019— A Spell of Poetry and Song, Solo Show, Nati Frinj Biennale, Natimuk, Vic

2019— Butterfly Celebration, Botanical Gardens, Castlemaine, Vic

2019— Kavisha Mazella Farewll Concert, Theatre Royale, Castlemaine Vic

2019— Guest Poet, Manning Clarke House, Canberra, ACT

2019— Enfield Poet of the Month, Enfield, London UK

2019— International Women's Day, Botanical Gardens, Castlemaine, Vic2019- Guest Poet, Write Stuff, Bendigo, Vic

2018— Guest Poet with Write Stuff, Bendigo Writers Festival, Bendigo Vic

2018— Book Launch of 'Cry of the Curlew', Dirnaseer, NSW

2018— Book Launch of 'Cry of the Curlew', Castlemaine, Vic

2018— Guest Poet, PoetiCas, Mauro Bar, Castlemaine, Vic

2017— Guest Poet, Books Plus Poet, Castlemaine, Vic

2017— 'A Spell of Poetry and Song', Solo Show, Words-in-Winter, Daylesford, Vic

2017 — Guest Poet, The Poetry Review Launch, Covent Garden London UK

2017— Guest Poet, NOTED Festival, Canberra, ACT

2016— Guest Poet, Words in Winter, Daylesford, Vic

2016— Castlemaine Festival, Storytelling Session, Castlemaine, Vic

2015— Guest Poet, Poetry Against Borders, Wheeler Centre, Vic

2015— Guest Poet, PoetiCas, Castlemaine, Vic

2015— Poetry Reading, Fire and Honey, Mount of Alex Bookshop, Castlemaine, Vic

PUBLICATIONS

2025— Forthcoming from Poetry London in Spring, edited by Niall Campbell, UK

2025— Phone-aPoem, Red Room Poetry at Melbourne Writers Festival and online, edited by Izzy Robert- Orr

2024 – ClarionJournal #3, edited by Tom Hirons, Devon UK

2024 — Oxford School of Poetry, edited by Kirsten Norrie, Oxford, UK

2023— Hyacinth Review, edited by Ariel k. Moniz & Terri Pinyerd, Paris, France

2022— Meanjin, edited by Bronwyn Lea, Brisbane, QLD

2022 — Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology edited by Eli MacLaren, Montreal, Canada

2022— Castlemaine Art Museum Reflections exhibition, Castlemaine Vic

2022— The Poetry Review, edited by Emily Bery, London, UK

2021— Overland, edited by Toby Fitch, Sydney, NSW

2020— Elbazin, edited by Simon Upton, Sydney, NSW

2020— Meanjin, edited by Bronwyn Lea, Brisbane, QLD

2019— Dark Sky Dreaming, An Inland Skywriters Anthology, edited by Merrill Findlay, Cowra, NSW

2019— Poetry Review, edited by Emily Berry, London, UK

2019— Westerly, edited by Joanne Taylor, Perth, WA

2019— A suitcase of Eels, Guillemot Press, UK (illustration)

2018— The Creel, Anthology, Edited by Luke Thompson, Guillemot Press, UK

2018— Cry of the Curlew, Poems of Pinchgut Creek, Heron Cottage Press, Vic

2018— Skylight 47, Galway, UK

2018— Medical Journal of Australia, Australia

2017— Poetry Review, edited by Emily Berry, London, UK

2017— Storm Music, chapbook, Heron Cottage Press, Vic

2017— Overland, edited by Toby Fitch, Sydney, NSW

2017— Love is Short, an Anthology of Love Poems by Women, edited by Vali Poole, Blank Rune Press, Vic

2017— The Caterpillar, edited by Will Govan and Rebecca O'Connor, Ireland, UK

2017— The Pickled Body, Ireland, UK

2016— Flightpath, Anthology of Migrating Birds, edited by Virginia Jealous, Hallowell Press, WA

2016— Australian Poetry Journal, edited by Michael Sharkey, Melbourne, Vic

2016— Southerly, edited by David Brookes and Andy Jackson, Sydney, NSW

2016— Poethead, online women's poetry website, edited by Christine Murray, Ireland

2016— Skylight 47, Galway, Ireland, UK

2016— The Caterpillar, edited by Will Govan and Rebecca O'Connor, Ireland, UK

2015— Plumwood Mountain, edited by Trish Dearborn

2015— Painted Words, Bendigo TAFE, Vic

2015— Australian Poetry Journal, edited by Michael Sharkey, Melbourne, Vic

2014— Your Beautiful Names, edited by Janet Galbraith, Castlemaine, Vic

2014— ongoing 153 Bimblebox Birds, a touring exhibition, QLD

2014— Buckingbong to Birrego- An e-book, edited by Vic McEwan, NSW

EXPERIENCE

2024— Still Life Teaching, Junee Library, NSW

2023— Artist Residency, BigCi, Bilpin, NSW

2019— Poet-in-Residence, Poetic Voices, Enfield, London, UK

2019— Poem included in Poetry Trail, The Poetry Society, Covent Garden, UK

2017— Writer-in-Residence at Pinchgut Creek, Dirnaseer, under B.R.E.W., NSW

2015-18— Co-Producer of PoetiCas, Castlemaine's Monthly Poetry Readings, VIC

2016— Co-Producer of Castlemaine Poetry Festival, VIC

FURTHER EDUCATION

2025 – Professional Artist Mentorship, Nicole Kelly, Online

2023 –- Poetry Workshop, Liz Berry, Online

2022 –- Poetry Workshop, Niall Campbell, Online

2022 –- Poetry Workshop, Zaffir Kunial, Online

2021 –- Gaelic singing, Mary McLaughlin, Online

2020 —Gaelic singing, Mary McLaughlin, Online

2019 —Poetry Workshop, Mark Tredinnick, Castlemaine, Vic

2017— Poetry Residency, Fiona Sampson and David Harsent, Ledbury, UK

2016— Poetry Workshop, Joy Harjo, Queensland Poetry Festival, Qld

2016— Poetry Workshop, Nathan Curnow, Castlemaine, Vic

2016— Poetry Workshop, Toby Fitch, Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, Vic

2015— Poetry Workshop, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, PoetiCas, Castlemaine Vic

2014— Poetry Workshop, Keith Harrison, PoetiCas, Castlemaine Vic

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