A B O U T

SHORT BIO

Louise Omer’s memoir, Holy Woman: A divine adventure (Scribe Publications), was published internationally in 2022. Her work has been included in the anthologies On This Ground: Best Australian Nature Writing, ed. Dave Witty (Monash University Publishing, 2025), and Romance Options: Love Poems for Today, ed. Leeanne Quinn, Joseph Woods (Dedalus Press, 2022). Her short pieces have been published in The Guardian, The Australian, The Monthly, The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, and more. Her projects have been funded by Arts SA and the Irish Arts Council, and she has appeared at The Wheeler Centre, NT Writers Festival and Melbourne Writers Festival. In 2024 she co-devised two short theatre works, and she is currently the Artistic Director of NT Writers Festival. 

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LONG BIO

Louise Omer is a writer and artist born on Kaurna Country. Holy Woman: A divine adventure (Scribe Publications), was published internationally in 2022. Her work has been included in the anthologies On This Ground: Best Australian Nature Writing, ed. Dave Witty (Monash University Publishing, 2025), and Romance Options: Love Poems for Today, ed. Leeanne Quinn, Joseph Woods (Dedalus Press, 2022). Publications include The Monthly, The Guardian, The Australian, The Saturday Paper, and more.

She has read at events in Edinburgh, Dublin, Catalonia, Melbourne and Adelaide, and her projects have been funded by Arts SA and the Irish Arts Council. She was a panellist at Melbourne Writers Festival, The Wheeler Centre, NT Writers Festival, Emerging Writers' Festival, the Bali Emerging Writers Festival, and was a Hot Desk Fellow at The Wheeler Centre. She has been interviewed by the ABC, the BBC, and commented on modern spirituality for various television programs, radio shows and newspapers.

As an artist she has participated in residencies and group exhibitions in Spain, Bulgaria, and the UK. her mixed-media poetry zines experiment with collage and lino-printing have featured in Dublin Art Book Fair in 2020 and 2021, and Watch This Space’s Zine Fair in 2023 and 2024.

In 2024 she co-devised two short theatre works, and she is currently the Artistic Director of NT Writers Festival. Louise is represented by literary agent Jane Novak.

PRIZES ETC

Arts Council Ireland Agility Award for the development of She, the Devourer poetry collection into theatre concept 2021

Arts Council Ireland Professional Development Award for the development of She, the Devourer poetry collection 2020

Arts SA grant for the editing of Holy Woman 2019

shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize 2017

Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship 2017

panellist – Emerging Writers' Festival - Melbourne, Australia 2014, 2015

international Guest – Bali Emerging Writers' Festival - Ubud, Indonesia 2015

writer in residence – SA Writers' Centre - Adelaide, Australia 2015

APPEARANCES + READINGS

Melbourne Writers Festival - Naarm 2022

The Wheeler Centre - Naarm 2022

2M Review launch night - Ireland 2020

WomenXBorders, Irish Writers Centre - Dublin, Ireland 2020

Takin’ the Mic - Dublin, Ireland 2019

Exposició Collectiva - El Bruc, Spain 2019

Inky Fingers - Edinburgh, UK 2018

The Next Big Thing, The Wheeler Centre - Melbourne, Australia 2017