Lyn Dickens

Lyn Dickens is an award-winning writer, editor, and academic living on unceded Kaurna land. Her debut novel Salt Upon the Water is forthcoming with Wakefield Press in 2025, and was the winner of the 2024 Arts South Australia Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award. Of mixed Singaporean Peranakan Chinese and Anglo Celtic Australian heritage, Lyn is the Managing Editor and Co-Founder of The Saltbush Review and she is a 2025 Caruso Writer-in-Residence at the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre. In 2022 Lyn was the winner of an Editorial Mentorship with Liminal x Writers SA and in 2021 she was awarded a Write It Fellowship with Penguin Random House. Her writing has been published in Australia, the UK, and the USA, appearing in journals such as Kill Your Darlings, ArtsHub, Liminal, and Mascara Literary Review.

 Lyn has been shortlisted and longlisted for a variety of awards including the Deborah Cass Prize, the Lucy Cavendish Prize and the Richell Prize, and she was highly commended for the Chapter One Prize. In 2017 Lyn completed an Asialink Arts residency in India. She has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Sydney which included a year of research at the University of Cambridge based at Emmanuel College. Lyn is a member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. Her website can be found at: lyndickens.com