Suri Matondkar

Awards

• Winner of the 2025 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Non-fiction and Readers’ Choice Award

• Winner of the 2025 UQP Mentorship for Under-represented Writers

• Recipient of Faber Writing Academy’s 2025 Mid-year Writing a Novel Scholarship
  
• Winner of the 2024 Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards (Narrative Non-fiction)

• 2025 Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship – Varuna, The National Writers’ House

• Recipient of the 2024 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship

• RTP scholarship – Western Sydney University (DCA, 2023–2026)

• Winner of the inaugral Deakin Postgraduate Prize in Writing and Literature

Award Shortlists

• Shortlisted for the 2024 Island Nonfiction Prize

• Shortlisted for the 2022 Catalyse Nonfiction Prize

• Shortlisted for the 2022 Island Nonfiction Prize

• Shortlisted for the 2022 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing

• Shortlisted for the 2021 Deakin Nonfiction Prize

Publications

• Thoughts on the international student caps? – Cordite, Issue 117

• 10 Steps to Becoming an Adult – The Audacity, September 2024

• Writing Task 1 – Island 171, 2024

• Student Visas and the Dream of Home – Kill Your Darlings, March 2023

• Chaste – Island 165, 2022