Munira Tabassum Ahmed

Munira Tabassum Ahmed is a 19-year-old writer. Her work has been published in Best of Australian Poems, Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal, Liminal, Runway Journal, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, and elsewhere. She was the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellow, a Youth Ambassador for Red Room Poetry, and a medalist at the 2022 National Youth Poetry Slam. She was a 2020-21 youth curator and moderator for the Sydney Writers’ Festival, and co-host of a 2021 Culture Makers Lab workshop with the Immigration Museum, Melbourne.

She’s a recipient of the 2023 Faber Writing Scholarship and the 2023 WestWords-Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residency. Highly commended for the 2024 Next Chapter Scheme, she is currently embarking on a mentorship through the University of Melbourne’s creative writing department.