Jamil Badi

Jamil Badi is a writer living on unceded Wurundjeri land with a particular interest in folktales, oral storytelling, and African myths. His work strives to emulate the style and performative aspects of these stories, whilst addressing and engaging with contemporary issues. His work has been published in Babyteeth Journal’s Never Heard of Them Emerging Writer’s anthology and the South Coast Writers Centre Uncommon Words anthology. He has also been highly commended for the 2019 Wollongong Short Story Prize, highly commended for the 2019 John Marsden and Hachette Australia Prize for Young Writers for poetry, and commended for the 2023 Wilbur & Niso Smith Author of Tomorrow Adventure Writing Prize. His recent work is to be published in the Watershed Review and Voiceworks.