Rose Hartley

Author

About Rose

ROSE HARTLEY IN A CHAIR
Photo by Henry Trumble

Rose Hartley’s debut novel Maggie’s Going Nowhere was published in 2020 by Penguin Random House Australia. She graduated from the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in San Diego and works for a non-profit organisation. She lives in Adelaide. 

Rose has been awarded a Varuna fellowship and residencies at Writers SA and Manning Clark House, and was selected for the Hachette Mentoring Program.

Her short story “No Other Men in Mitchell” was nominated for an Australian Shadows Award and her poem “Metal Fume Fever” won the 2014 Axel Clark Memorial Prize for Poetry. She has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and longlisted for the Ron Pretty Poetry Prize and the Richell Prize for Unpublished Manuscripts.

Her short fiction has appeared in Nightmare, Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices on Equality and Human Rights, and f(r)iction, and her non-fiction can be found in The Guardian and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Rose holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) from the University of Melbourne. She is represented by Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management Literary Agency.