Who Is Beau Windon?

Writer. Author. Poet. Fanboy. Oddball.

Beau Windon is a neurodivergent writer of Wiradjuri descent based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). He writes quirky stories about quirky people and all of the dark goo living inside him. He is more confident on a stage in front of an audience than in social gatherings. Currently, he is looking for a home for his debut memoir (which is best described as the genre-hopping Taylor Swift of memoirs) and his comedic YA novel.

You can view his credentials and publication details below.

If you see him out in the wild, approach with caution and some form of choc orange treat.

Accomplishments

2024 “Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups” grant from Creative Australia

Awarded a grant for collaborative YA bisexual fight novel with Arty Owens.

2023 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Winner

One of the winners of the 2023 Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition. Winning piece available to read in Griffith Review Vol. 83. Read more here!

2023 Evolving Arts and Disability Residency

Selected as one of the nine resident artists brought together by AAV and DADAA for a week long residency exploring the arts industry from a disability perspective. Read more here!

2022 Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards

SHORTLISTED: The Dorothy Porter Award for Poetry
RUNNER-UP: Life Writing Award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers
Judges comments- With its skilful fragmentation of form and bracing intimacy, this piece pulls us into the writer’s world. Propelled by a strong, vivid voice, it channels a neurodivergent point-of view while also depicting the sense of waywardness or vertigo that arises from trying to find one’s place.
WINNER: Self-told Stories by Writers Living with a Disability
Judes comments- Arresting, assured, and spectacularly conceived and executed, this piece subverts conventional form to playfully mirror fragmented and unstable mental states. The piece goes beyond traditional memoir and avoids merely defining (and further pathologising) conditions and illnesses; in its eschewal of the didactic, it truly epitomises “show, don’t tell”.
Read the winning story here!
2022 “Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups” grant from Australia Council for the Arts

Awarded a grant for my hybrid memoir: “A Proud Failure”.

2022 Sustaining Creative Workers grant from Regional Arts Victoria

Awarded a grant for my hybrid memoir: “A Proud Failure”.

2022 Arts grant from City of Melbourne

Awarded a grant and residency for my hybrid memoir: “A Proud Failure”.

2021 Grace Marion Wilson Writeability Fellowship

Awarded a Writeability fellowship from Writers Victoria for my hybrid memoir: “A Proud Failure”. Read the announcement here!

2021 Creative Workers grant from Creative Victoria

Awarded a Creative Workers grant for my YA project: “Wild Against the World”.

Highly Commended by Faber Academy for their 2021 Young Adult writing scholarship

Awarded mentorship for my YA project: “Wild Against the World” with Simmone Howell. Read the announcement here!

Varuna Residential Fellowship 2021

Awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2021 based off a sample from my YA project: “Wild Against the World”. Read the announcement here!

EWF ‘At Home’ Residency 2020

1 of 6 writers selected for the Emerging Writers Festival “At Home” Residency program in 2020 (out of 600 applicants). Read an interview about it here!