Kim Aikman
Writer
Kim Aikman is a writer and printmaker, living in Walyalup (Fremantle), Western Australia, with her husband and four children.
Her manuscript, Heartwood, was chosen by Allen & Unwin for the 2019 Publisher Introduction Program Fellowship at the Varuna Writers Centre. She was selected for the FAWWA Four Centres Emerging Writers’ Program 2021-2023, working with Richard Rossiter as her mentor. During 2023, Kim studied novel writing at the Faber Writing Academy with Carrie Tiffany, and was a fellow at the KSP Writers’ Centre. In 2024, she participated in the six month Granta Writing Memoir Workshop. As part of her postgraduate studies, Kim is currently working on her thesis: a memoir-in-essays that explores the complicated dynamic between mothers and daughters.
Kim has a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Nottingham and a MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. She has also studied editing, publishing, fiction writing, journalism, and scriptwriting, and is presently working towards a Master of Arts (Literature & Writing) at Deakin University.
Alongside reviewing books, films, and restaurants, Kim has worked in publishing, documentary production, bookselling and, perhaps most notably, as a library assistant at the Scottish Poetry Library. For several years, she wrote a blog about motherhood and creativity. Her writing has appeared in The Independent, The List, Mslexia, Essence, Verandah, Westerly, Meanjin Quarterly, and Gems Zine.
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