Scott-Patrick Mitchell is the 2025 Creative Arts Fellow in Australian Writing, supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust.
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About Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s Fellowship research
As a member of the LGBTIQA+ community, Scott-Patrick Mitchell has come to appreciate how queer archives are points of potential, bodies through which we move and comprehend. From them we can empower future generations by bringing with us the past’s resilience, strength and necessary compassion.
During their Fellowship, Mitchell has delved into some of the Library’s queer archives and begun work on the poetry collection RISE RALLY REST. This collection explores the roles celebration (RISE), activism (RALLY) and aging into queerness and suburbia (REST) play in the LGBTIQA+ community. This collection honours the past while inspiring the future.
About Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a WA-based queer non-binary poet who lives on Whadjuk Noongar Country. They were the recipient of 2022’s Red Room Poetry Fellowship, Westerly’s 2022 Mid-Career Fellowship and the 2023 winner of The XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word. Most recently, Mitchell was Highly Commended in The 2024 Blake Poetry Prize.
Their debut poetry collection Clean (Upswell Publishing, 2022) explores Mitchell’s lived experience as a methamphetamine addict and the consequent recovery and sobriety they carry with them today. Clean was shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, The WA Premier’s Book Awards and The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
About National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellowships
The National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellowship program offers writers an opportunity to develop new creative work using or inspired by the National Library’s collections.
Image credit: 2025 Creative Arts Fellow Scott-Patrick Mitchell. Image courtesy David Cox Media.
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