Sally Colin-James’s passion for people, place and story, saw her depart the corporate boardroom and travel to the complicated and contested lands of northern Sri Lanka to complete a Bachelor of Letters (Honours) thesis with Deakin University. She gained an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship to fulfill a PhD in professional writing and explored the ancient world of the Etruscan civilisation. Across islands and continents, she has been researching and writing ever since.
Her debut novel One Illumined Thread won the 2020 HNSA Colleen McCullough Residency Award, the 2020 Varuna PIP Fellowship Award and a placement with the Australian Writers Mentoring program. She has been the recipient of the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival Mentorship Award and her work was shortlisted from 2000 entries across 54 countries for the international 2021 First Pages Prize.
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