Nike Sulway


Nike Sulway, nee Bourke is an Australian novelist.

Career

Sulway was the 2000 winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Emerging Author for The Bone Flute. She has also written The True Green of Hope as well as the children's picture book What The Sky Knows. She was the winner of the QLD Premier's Literary Award, shortlisted for two Children's Book Council of Australia awards, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Asia Pacific Region. She completed an undergraduate degree in literature and theatre at Griffith University, gained First Class Honours and the University Medal, and subsequently completed a doctorate in Creative Writing at the same university. Her doctoral thesis was title From the Cradle to the Grave: A History of Infanticide and included the novel The Bone Flute.
She has published widely, both nationally and internationally as a short fiction writer, and as a reviewer and non-fiction writer, contributing articles to The Australian, Griffith Review and the Courier Mail. She has acted as a literary judge for the QLD Premier's Literary Awards, now the Queensland Literary Awards, and The James Tiptree Award. She has a PhD from Griffith University and a strong background in academic research and writing. She works in the School of Arts and Communication at the University of Southern Queensland.
Sulway was on the program to appear in two events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Novels

The Bone Flute won the 2000 QLD Premier's Literary Award for an emerging author in 2000 and was subsequently short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Award in the Best First Book category.
What the Sky Knows was shortlisted for two categories in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards in 2005.
Rupetta won the 2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, the 2014 Norma K Hemming Award, and was shortlisted for both a 2014 Crawford Memorial Award and a 2014 Aurealis Award.