Featured Artists
Mary Anne Butler
Mary Anne Butler’s plays have won the Victorian Prize for Literature, Victorian Premier’s Drama Award, Shane and Cathryn Brennan Prize for Playwriting, a stage AWGIE and two NT Chief Minister’s Book of the Year Awards. Her plays Cusp and Highway of Lost Hearts are on the NT and SA schools curriculum, and her play Wittenoom is on the VCE list in Victoria. Mary Anne is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, Arts NT Fellow, Winston Churchill Fellow, Regional Arts Fellow and Asialink Fellow. She holds an MPhil in Creative Writing, MEd in Arts Education, and is undertaking a PhD in Literature, investigating how we write hope into the realist literature of the Anthropocene.