Gregory Day

Gregory Day is an Australian novelist, poet and songwriter.

Life

Gregory Day is a writer, poet and musician based in Victoria, Australia. He is a founding director of the art, music & publishing collective, Merrijig Word & Sound Co. http://www.merrijigwordandsound.com/

Awards and nominations

• Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best First Book, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels - shortlisted
• Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 2006: The Patron Saint of Eels - winner
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, 2008: Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds: A Novel - shortlisted
• Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, 2011: "The Neighbour's Beans" - joint inaugural winner

Bibliography

Novels

• The Patron Saint of Eels (2005)
• Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds (2007)
• The Grand Hotel (2010)

Poetry

• Six Different Ways (1999) - with Kieran Carroll and Michael Farrell etc
• Trace (in collaboration with photographer Robert Ashton) (2003)

Music

• Untitled Red: No Evangelism (1992)
• Barroworn: Mangowak Days (1995)
• The Black Tower: Songs From The Poetry Of WB Yeats (1998)
• Trace soundtrack with Silver Ray (2003)
• The Flash Road: Scenes From The Building Of The Great Ocean Road (2005)

Interviews

• "The Age" [1] - 24 April 2005
• "ABC Radio National Book Show [2] - 21 May 2008
• "ABC Radio National Book Show [3] - 25 October 2010