About Koraly
Photo by Di Cousens
Koraly Dimitriadis is a Cypriot-Australian writer of poetry, prose and non-fiction. In mid 2009 she was selected to participate in the Overland masterclass for her short story ‘The recipe’ and since then has been a regular blogger for Overland. ‘The recipe’ was longlisted for the FISH short story competition in Ireland in 2011. Koraly’s poem ‘Daylesford’ received a merit award in 2011 in the Diasporic Literary competition. Koraly’s writing has been published online and in print, has been broadcast on 3CR and RRR radio and on Channel 31, and was displayed on Federation square wall for the Overload poetry festival 2010 & 2011. She has performed her spoken word at places such as Passionate Tongues, The Human Rights Festival, The Emerging Writers’ Festival @ The Tote, The Dan O’connell Hotel, The Overload poetry festival, Passionate Tongues, Perth Poetry Club, La Mama Musica, La Mama Poetica, Polyester Books and she has also performed in Cyprus. Koraly occasionally performs with prominent contrabassist Nick Tsiavos and also occasionally performs in sex poetry wars with Ben John Smith (and she always wins). An interview for their show at Polyester Books was featured in Beat magazine print and online on their home page. Koraly was a finalist at the Doris Ledbetter poetry cup and the Overload poetry slam in 2010. Koraly presents monthly on 3CR’s Spoken Word program where she selects a poet to interview and matches them up to one piece of music by an undiscovered local band. Her work has been published in Untitled, The Reader, Blue Dog, The Victorian Writers Centre Magazine, Paradise anthology, The Green Fuse, Positive Words, The Diamond and the Thief (online), Page 17, Southern Sun Aegean Light, Short and Twisted, Meanjin online, Horror Sleaze & Trash, Diasporic Literary magazine (online), Recoil 3, Little Raven (online audio), Queen Vic Knives (text and video), and at Mediterranean poets (online). Koraly’s first unpublished novel, Misplaced was longlisted for the 2010 Hachette manuscript program. Koraly studied the local Melbourne rock band Trial Kennedy, incorporating their music and band dynamics into Misplaced. Her first chap book, A poet is born, was published in January 2011, and her second, launched in June, is Love and Fuck poems, which is selling well and will be translated to Greek by a Cypriot publisher. Koraly has also been working on her first poetry collection, Love according to wogs. Koraly is the literature curator for the Antithesis festival, studies at RMIT and is an intern at Ilura Press. She also played a part in the short film mockumentary A slap in the face produced and directed by Art of the State Filmworks. Koraly is mentored by Anna Kannava and Christos Tsiolkas. In 2012 Koraly be the poet in residence at Cafe Nova on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy.
Media
(& some online works. Click links in bio above to view other online works)
Review of Overload Poetry Festival feature at Passionate Tongues with Nick Tsiavos, September 2011
Review of Doris Leadbetter Poetry cup 2011 by Koraly Dimitriadis @ slamup
Review of opening night, Overload poetry festival 2011 by Koraly Dimitriadis @ slamup
Neos Kosmos article about Love and Fuck Poems, 12th September 2011
Review of ‘Love and Fuck Poems’ by Maxine Clarke
Review of ‘Love and Fuck Poems’ at Overland Literary Journal by Mark William Jackson
Here is a link to an article written about Antithesis and Koraly in the Neos Kosomos newspaper.
Here is a link to a review of Southern Sun Aegean Light where Koraly is mentioned.
Koraly performed at the Greek-Australian cultural league Antipodean Art exhibition
Review of The Reader where Koraly in mentioned
September 2009 Tafe 4 All website
February 2009 Tafe 4 All website
