Vale Jan Dean
Jan Dean, Newcastle writer and artist, has died. She was a life-member and former president of Poetry at the Pub. She had been involved in that group since 1997.
Prizes & Accolades
Jan won the 2018 Newcastle Writers Festival joanne burns Microlit Award for her prose poem ‘Fish Flops and Flaps’ published in Shuffle by Spineless Wonders.
She was awarded the Seniors’ Prize sponsored by Baytree by Ardency at the 2019 Lane Cove Literary Awards with ‘Moss Poem’.
She held a Distinguished Service Award from FAW NSW. Her With One Brush (IP, Queensland) was short-listed for the Mary Gilmore Award and her pocketbook Paint Peels, Graffiti Sings, (Flying Island Books, Macau) is in English and Mandarin.
Published Works
Her work has been published in Not Very Quiet (online), Southerly, Meanjin, Rabbit Poetry Journal, the Australian, Eucalypt: a tanka journal, and Newcastle Poetry Prize anthologies.
Memorial
A memorial will be held for Jan when the family arrange it in the near future.
Clark Gormley
Poet & Singer Songwriter
https://www.clarkgormley.com/
Jan was such a generous artist. Always supporting others. I shall miss her presence. Vale