Bel Schenk Explained

Bel Schenk (born 1975) is an Australian poet and author resident in Melbourne. She has performed her work widely in venues around Australia.^[1]

Schenk was born in Adelaide, South Australia.^[1]

She is the author of The Most Famous Boy In Town (2024),^[2] Every Time You Close Your Eyes (2014),^[3] Ambulances & Dreamers (2008)^[4] and Urban Squeeze.^[5]

From 2008 to 2011 Schenk was employed as the artistic director of Express Media in Melbourne,^[6] and worked for many years prior to that at the SA Writers' Centre.

Selected works

• The Most Famous Boy In Town (2024) ISBN 978-0-6483988-2-0
• Every Time You Close Your Eyes (2014)
• Ambulances & Dreamers (2008)
• Urban Squeeze (2003)

Further reading

• Express Media
• Lifting the Roof and Showing us Inside: Geoff Lemon launches ’Every Time You Close Your Eyes’ by Bel Schenk. Geoff Lemon's launch speech for Every Time You Close Your Eyes in The Rochford Street Review, 7 April 2015.

Notes and References

1. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A1nW Austlit
2. Web site: The Most Famous Boy in Town . 2024-05-06 . short Australian stories - everywhere . en-US.
3. http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=1195 Every Time You Close Your Eyes
4. Ambulances & Dreamers (Wakefield Press, 2008.
5. http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/783605?c=people Bel Schenk
6. Web site: Alumni & friends « Writers, Young Writer, Writing Courses, Creative Writing . 2011-11-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120407024824/http://expressmedia.org.au/express_media/about/people/alumni-friends/ . 2012-04-07 .