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Son of Sin
The Lost Arabs
These Wild Houses
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Omar Sakr

Publications

Poetry

01. Birds of a Feather (Meanjin, September, 2014)
02. Definitions (Overland Electronic Issue, December, 2014)
03. Mad Like A 12 Year Old Boy (Carve, September, 2014)
04. The H Word (Cordite Poetry Review, May, 2014)
4a). reprinted in Contemporary Australian Poetry
05. A Shutter Mechanism In Reverse (Lost In Track Changes, 2014)
06. Terra Nullius (The Drum, ABC, September, 2013)
07. This Miraculous Terrorism (‘Gaza Unsilenced’ anthology, 2015)
08. A Funeral Year (Tincture Journal, Issue 11, 2015)
09. Election Day (Meanjin, vol. 3 2015)
10. Call of Duty (ACU chapbook, 2015)
11. Dear Mama (Mascara Literary Review, 2015)
12. the finish line (Right Now Inc, 2015)
13. Not So Wild (Overland, 2016)
14. Some Facts About Kindness (Right Now Inc, 2016)
15. Stone Heart (Strange Horizons, 2016)
16. Jam (Going Down Swinging, 2016)
17. ghosting the ghetto (Red Room Company, 2016)
17a) reprinted in Best Australian Poems 2016
18. In the Middle of Maize Country (Twisted Moon, 2016)
19. Breath (Island magazine, 2017)
20. How to live in a world that is burning (Verity La, 2017)
21. Greasy Wings on Swanston St (City of Literature, 2017)
22. Love on High St (City of Literature, 2017)
23. Fridays in the Park [or how to make the boy holy] (City of Literature, 2017)
24. This Is Not Meant For You (City of Literature, 2017)
25. Birthday (Antic magazine, 2017)
26. Vacation Country (Antic magazine, 2017)
27. What My Body Tells (Antic magazine, 2017)
28. Switch (Overland, April 2017)
29. a lunar binge (Overland, April 2017)
30. Hop this Scotch (Peril magazine, 2017)
31. All my loves (Wildness, 2017)
32. Ordinary Things (Griffith Review, 2017)
33. Brothers (Cordite Poetry Review, 2017)
34. Sailor’s Knot (Meanjin, 2017)
35. Landscaping (Cordite Poetry Review, 2017)
36. Ameen (Peril magazine, 2017)
37. On the Way to Sydney (Big Black Thing Ch2, 2018)
38. Sky Orchards (Underblong, 2018)
39. Waiting for the American Spring (Mizna, 2018)
40. The Lost Arabs (Prairie Schooner, 2018)
41. What It Is To Be Holy (Prairie Schooner, 2018)
42. Factoids (Prairie Schooner, 2018)
43. Every Day (Prairie Schooner, 2018)
44. Galaxies of Road (Ibis House, 2018)
45. No Goldblum, No Matter (Ibis House, 2018)
46. Suppositions (Ibis House, 2018)
47. A Beautiful Child (Asian American Writers Workshop, 2018)
48. Self-Portrait of What Graces the Night (Yellow Medicine Review, 2018)
49. In Order To Return (City of Sydney, 2018)
50. Meaning (Tinderbox, 2018)
51. House of Beirut (Tinderbox, 2018)
52. The Exhibition of Autobiography (Wildness, 2018)
53. Blues (Going Postal: More Than Yes or No, 2018)
54. Blessed Be This Sadness (Overland, 2018)
55. Do Not Rush (The Scores Journal, 2018)
56. Salaat (Peril, 2019)
57. Where I Am Not (AAP Poem-a-Day series, 2019)
58. Relevant to the Day (Djed Press, 2019)
59. Love Under Capitalism (Cordite Poetry Review, 2019)
60. Iris (Griffith Review, 2020)
61. Priest of Cheesy Fries (Westerly, 2020)
62. American Dirt (The Saturday Paper, 2020)
63. The Thing About Being In Love Is That (Wasafiri Mag, 2020)
64. [Y]our People [Y]our Problems (The Saturday Paper, 2020)
65. Diary of a Non-Essential Worker (The Saturday Paper, 2020)
66. Relevant to the Day (Stillpoint Magazine, 2020)
67. Workshop: Borders (Epiphany Magazine, 2020)
68. Relevant to the Day (Australian Poetry Journal, 2020)
69. RTTD July 4th (UQP, 2020)
70. Things That Saved My Life Lately (UQP, 2020)
71. Golden Hour In Unit Block 10 (Mizna Journal, 2020)
72. Relevant to the Day (The Saturday Paper, 2020)
73. To Be Loved Like This (The Saturday Paper, 2020)
74. I Woke Up This Morning (Overland, 2021)
75. Uncovered (The Spinoff, 2021)
76. A Muslim, Christmas (Cordite Poetry Review, 2021)
77. What Distance Burns (Australian Book Review, 2021)
78. Every Time I Visit (Portside Review, 2021)
79. Context in a Broken Duplex (RR Poetry Month, 2021)
80. Monster (The Lickety Split, 2021)
81. In the Wake of a Tragedy (The Lickety Split, 2021)
82. Relevant to the Day (Liminal Anthology vol 2, 2022)
83. Returning to Auburn I Remember (Just Smile, 2022)
84. Suppositions (Overland, 2022)
85. Redback (Overland, 2022)
86. Fruit (Overland, 2022)
87. Regards (The Sunday Paper, 2022)

Features / Awards

  1. The Lost Arabs wins the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry (2020)
  2. Winner of the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Prize for Poetry
  3. The Lost Arabs shortlisted, Colin Roderick Award (2020)
  4. The Lost Arabs shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Prize (2020)
  5. The Lost Arabs shortlisted, John Bray Poetry Award (2020)
  6. The Lost Arabs shortlisted, Judith Wright Calanthe Award (2019)
  7.  Winner of The Edward Stanley Prize for Poetry (2019)
  8. These Wild Houses shortlisted, Kenneth Slessor Prize (2018)
  9. These Wild Houses shortlisted, Judith Wright Calanthe Award (2017)
  10. Shortlisted for the Red Room Poetry Fellowship (2018)
  11. Shortlisted in Cosmonaut Avenue Nonfiction Prize (2017)
  12. Shortlisted in the Fair Australia Poetry Prize (2016)
  13. Not So Wild placed runner-up in the Judith Wright Poetry Prize (2015)
  14. Call of Duty shortlisted for the ACU Poetry Prize (2015)
  15. America, You… shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize (2014)
  16. Up Above shortlisted for the Overland Story Wine Prize (2014)

Translated Poetry

Four poems in Al Araby, as translated by Mohammed Al-Asaad and Najwan Darwish:

1. Regrets (February, 2015)
2. A Handful Of Sky (February, 2015)
3. A Familiar Song (February, 2015)
4. Harmony of Dirt (March, 2015)

Eight poems in Circulo de Poesia, with thanks Alí Calderon, trans. by Andrea Rivas

1. Tinder
2. Alive
3. Terrorist
4. where god is
5. Vacation Country
6. Galaxies of Road
7. The Lost Arabs
8. Factoids

Nonfiction Essays

  1. Jab [Sha’ara] (Meanjin, 2022)
  2. Eyebones In Your Throat (Meanjin, 2021)
  3. A Convincing Darkness (The Guardian, 2020)
  4. Head in the Sand (Meanjin, 2019)
  5. My First and Second Language (Meanjin, 2019)
  6. What is Political Correctness? (The Saturday Paper, 2018)
  7.  Any Percentage of a Heart is Still a Heart (Meanjin, 2018)
  8.  A Forest of Memory: Ato Ribeiro (The Saturday Paper, 2018)
  9.  A Stomach Full of Stones (The Saturday Paper, 2018)
  10.  The Uncomplicated Dead (Kill Your Darlings, 2017)
  11.  Up the Gong with M. Mohammed Ahmad (TSP, 2017)
  12. How to Live in Trump’s World (The Lifted Brow, 2016)
  13.  Poetry Worth Pausing For: A Review (The Lifted Brow, 2016)
  14.  One Nation of Fear (Right Now Inc, 2016)
  15.  A War on Homophobia (SBS, 2016)
  16.  A Sky Full of Pride (Kill Your Darlings, 2016)
  17.  Parallel Lanes: On fear, citizenship & accountability (KYD, 2015)
  18.  Interview with Actor, Disability Advocate RJ Mitte (Junkee, 2015)
  19.  Is TV Post-Racial? Hint: The Answer Is No (The Guardian, 2015)
  20. The Privilege of Starvation: On Art & Creative Writing (KYD, 2015)
  21.  On the Merit of Literary Prizes (The Wheeler Centre, 2015)
  22.  Alexis Wright’s Stream of Words (The Saturday Paper, 2015)
  23.  Alexis Wright’s ‘The Swan Book’ (The New Arab, 2015)
  24.  Crossing the Nullarbor Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3 (GDS, 2015)
  25. . A Writer’s Silence (Going Down Swinging, 2015)
  26. . The Suburbs I Still Know (SMH, March, 2013)

Fiction

  1. White Flu in After Australia (Affirm Press, 2020)
  2. An Arab Werewolf in Liverpool in Kindred: 12 Queer YA Stories (Walker, 2019)

Interviews

  1. To Read, Remember, and Return in LA Review of Books (2020)
  2. Interview with Djed Press (2019)
  3. Western Sydney University Interview (2019)
  4. Interview with Liminal Magazine (2018)
  5.  Dear Poetry Editor with Chicago Review of Books (2017)
  6.  On Art & Politics with Meanjin (2015)

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