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Emer Lyons

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Emer Lyons is a lesbian writer from West Cork living in Dunedin, New Zealand. In 2017 she was the recipient of the inaugural University of Otago City of Literature PhD scholarship, she has been shortlisted for the Fish and Bridport poetry prizes, her play The Green was nominated for Best Narrative in the 2018 Dunedin Theatre Awards, in 2019 she was the Otago Regional Slam Poetry Champion and in 2020 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for fiction.

Everything By: Emer Lyons

Performance02.05.21

Growing Up Queer

It wasn't easy growing up queer in 1970s rural Otago. Emer Lyons pays tribute to The Changing Shed by Michael Metzger.

By Emer Lyons
Read Time: 7 mins

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