Munira Tabassum Ahmed

Munira Tabassum Ahmed’s work has been published in Pleiades, Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal, Liminal, Cordite, and elsewhere. She was the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellow, a Youth Ambassador for Red Room Poetry, and a medalist at the 2024 National Youth Poetry Slam. She was the recipient of the 2024 Westwords Accelerator, 2023-24 Faber Writing Scholarship and the 2023 WestWords-Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residency. Highly commended for the 2024 Next Chapter Scheme, she has received mentorship through the University of Melbourne’s creative writing department. She’s currently working on her first novel.