The 2025 LIMINAL x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellowship
Congratulations to Wen-Juenn Lee, winner of the 2025 liminal x hyphenated projects Writing Fellowship!
Wen-Juenn Lee writes poetry on unceded Wurundjeri land. In her writing, she is interested in gaps, leaks, and spillage, which often take the form of place, memory, and the divine. Her work has been published in Meanjin, Cordite Poetry Review, and Going Down Swinging, among others. She was a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow and was awarded the Tina Kane Emergent Writer Award. She is working on her debut poetry collection.
Lee will use the fellowship and residency at the Hyphenated Projects house to work on something coiled, then flickering, a poetry manuscript exploring domesticity, distance, desire, and God. Writing outside the Western canon but shaped by Western theology and art history, Lee’s project speaks to the metaphysics of outsiderness from a diasporic, religious, and queer gaze. She asks: what is distance if not desire and divinity, and what is divinity if not distance and desire? Can we overcome distance? How do we live with it?
Highly Commended
The applications this year were exceptionally strong; as such, in addition to awarding our 2025 Fellowship, we are delighted to offer three highly commended applicants a week at the Hyphenated House to further develop their submitted projects.
Congratulations to Panda Wong, Huyen Hac Helen Tran and Lucy Van.
Panda Wong is a poet and editor who lives and works on stolen Wurundjeri land, in Naarm. She is also one-half of the music/poetry project lotus threads with musician Hannah Wu. With a focus on collaboration, she works across sound, film, performance, and digital spaces. Her practice explores non-human personhood, interconnectedness, ecological decline, and grief as memory practice. Her first chapbook, 'angel wings dumpster fire', and her first EP, 'salmon cannon me into the abyss', were released in mid-2022.
Huyen Hac Helen Tran is a writer living and working on Gadigal Land. Her work can be found in Liminal, Meanjin, The Suburban Review, The Big Issue, and more. She is currently completing a Masters Degree in Literature and Creative Writing at Western Sydney University. She is also the Digital Communications Officer at Sydney Review of Books.
Lucy Van is a Lockie Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she also teaches literary studies. Her poetry collection, The Open (Cordite 2021), was longlisted for the Stella prize. With Anne Maxwell, her new book is Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views (Anthem 2024).