Overview
Background
Sarah Klenbort writes short fiction and creative nonfiction. She is the author of over 40 publications found in literary journals, newspapers, magazines and anthologies here and around the world including Best Australian Stories 2015 and Guardian Australia. She won the 2023 ACPA Award for Best Education Coverage. She also won the 2019 Inktears Short Story Competition, the 2018 Field of Words Memoir Competition and the 2012 Wet Ink/Cal Short Story Prize (judged by Brian Castro). She had a Highly Commended short story in the 2011 Josephine Ulrick Prize (judged by Frank Moorhouse) and won the 2010 Mslexia Short Story Award (judged by Tracy Chevalier). She was also a winner of the 2010 HarperCollins Varuna Award for Manuscript Development. Her short fiction can be found in Overland and Southerly, and her nonfiction in Island and Eureka Street.
Dr Klenbort teaches creative writing and English literature.
Availability
- Dr Sarah Klenbort is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Masters (Extended) of Creative Writing, Columbia University in the City of New York
- Doctor of Philosophy of English Literature, State University of New York
Research impacts
As a scholar, Dr Klenbort is interested in how real-life stories can be used to tell compelling narratives that investigate crises we face now, mainly war, inequality, and climate change.
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Two American Freedoms
Klenbort, Sarah (2024). Two American Freedoms. Eureka Street.
2024
Journal Article
Americans look after each other because their government doesn't
Klenbort, Sarah (2024). Americans look after each other because their government doesn't. Eureka Street.
2023
Journal Article
Six Books to Read this Summer
Klenbort, Sarah (2023). Six Books to Read this Summer. Eureka Street.
2023
Journal Article
A Tale of Two School Systems
Klenbort, Sarah (2023). A Tale of Two School Systems. Eureka Street.
2023
Journal Article
Censorship in the Age of Social Media
Klenbort, Sarah (2023). Censorship in the Age of Social Media. Eureka Street.
2023
Journal Article
Does ChatGPT Have a Place in the Classroom?
Klenbort, Sarah (2023). Does ChatGPT Have a Place in the Classroom?. Eureka Street.
2023
Journal Article
Who Benefits from Olympic Billions
Klenbort, Sarah (2023). Who Benefits from Olympic Billions. Eureka Street.
2022
Journal Article
Reassessing Assessments in an Era of Anxiety
Klenbort, Sarah (2022). Reassessing Assessments in an Era of Anxiety. Eureka Street.
2022
Other Outputs
A Year without mirrors
Klenbort, Sarah (2022). A Year without mirrors. Island Magazine (Online).
2021
Other Outputs
The quilting group
Klenbort, Sarah (2021). The quilting group. Best Women’s Short Fiction 2021 https://mslexia.co.uk/shop/best-womens-short-fiction-2021/Best Women's Short Fiction. (pp. 87-98) edited by A. L. Kennedy. Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Mslexia Publications.
2014
Other Outputs
Signed languages can do so many things spoken languages can't
Klenbort, Sarah (2014, 10 20). Signed languages can do so many things spoken languages can't The Guardian
2014
Other Outputs
Into the woods
Klenbort, Sarah (2014). Into the woods. Overland.
Supervision
Availability
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Media
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