Briohny doyle

author of Why We Are Here, Echolalia, Adult Fantasy and The Island Will Sink

Hello, welcome!

I’m very excited to announce that my new novel Why We Are Here, is out now through Vintage Books. You can buy it at your local indie bookstore, or online here. The inimitable Vanessa Berry launched the book at The Midnight Special in Sydney. It was a dream night. You can read her launch speech here.

In other big news, my second novel, Echolalia, was long listed for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award! It also made the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and Readings Prize shortlists. It’s available at all good bookstores.

My other books are Adult Fantasy, which was shortlisted for the Melbourne prize for literature in 2018 and The Island Will Sink. I’ve published essays, short fiction and poetry in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Monthly, The Age, the Griffith Review, Overland, Going Down Swinging, Meanjin. My essay on aftermath was featured in the best of Longreads 2021.

I currently teach creative writing at The University of Sydney. In 2017, I was an Endeavour postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and the University of California Santa Cruz. In 2022 I was a Fulbright Scholar in residence at The New School, New York City.

All my author pics, and the wonderful images you will find in the pages of Why We Are Here are taken by Nash Ferguson. I’m represented by Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary Services.