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Sam Cooney Sam Cooney i(A129911 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Sam Cooney is a Melbourne writer. He completed a BA (Professional & Creative Writing) with a second major in Literature.

In 2011, Cooney was the fiction editor at the Lifted Brow. In 2018, he was the Lifted Brow's publisher and ran their associated small press, Brow Books. Publisher-in-residence at RMIT, he teaches sessionally at universities.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 recipient The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund

for travel to London to meet with publishers, editors and agents, and to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
2014 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Undertake a residency with McSweeney's to begin publishing books by emerging Australian writers.
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Awards for Works

A Squeal, and Then a Squeak 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing [2010] 2010; (p. 43-47) Windmills , no. 4 2010; (p. 10-11)
2009 winner Gum Leaves Short Story Competition
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