Naima Ibrahim
Writer
About Naima
Naima Ibrahim is a Somali-Australian writer living and working on Dharug country. Her work has appeared in Collisions, dichōtomi, Kill Your Darlings, Red Room Poetry, Sweatshop Women: Volume One and ZineWest’19. She has been shortlisted for the Monash Prize in Creative Writing and The Kat Muscat Fellowship. She has also been longlisted for the Liminal Fiction Prize. Naima was the recipient of the 2020 Heyman Mentorship Award and is currently working on her debut novel.
Writing
2021
cluttered thoughts; Appears in: dichotomi: Edition 4 [Online] November 2021
Books Roundup: Review of Friends and Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online], March 2021
2020
Auburn Heights; Appears in: Collisions: Fictions of the Future : An Anthology of Australian Writers of Colour 2020; (p. 32-39)
Because Bilal, Appears in: Red Room Poetry [Online] August 2020
2019
A Curse and a Prayer; Appears in: Sweatshop Women : Volume One
The Failed Job Interview; Appears in: Zine West , no. 19 2019; (p. 42-43)
Awards
2022 Shortlisted for Kat Muscat Fellowship
2020 Received Heyman Mentorship Award
2019 Longlisted for Liminal Fiction Prize
2019 Winner of Zinewest Writing Award
2018 Shortlisted for Monash Prize in Creative Writing
Speaking Engagements
2022 Sydney Muslim Writers’ Festival; MC Opening Address & Panellist on ‘Emerging Writers’
2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival; Panellist on Collisions
2020 ISRA Arts’ Night; Moderator on Conversation with Muslim Authors
2020 Collisions Sydney Book Launch At Better Read Than Dead Bookstore; Panellist
2020 Sydney Writers’ Festival; Panellist on Remembering Christchurch
