About Asha

Image credit: Kelly Hammond Photography

Asha Rajan is a South Indian (Malayalee)-Australian writer and editor who lives and creates on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar, land which was never ceded. She acknowledges with respect the elders and custodians; the first storytellers, songwriters and poets of this land.

Asha has been a Contributing Editor at the online writing community, YeahWrite, since December 2016. She is also a judge for various Super Challenge competitions for YeahWrite. Asha was an editor at the online literary micro-essay blog, Dead Housekeeping, from January 2015 to May 2020. She became the Managing Editor at Dead Housekeeping in May 2020; a position she continues to hold.

Asha is also a freelance editor who’s interested in a wide variety of editing projects.

Publications & Awards

Portside Review
Stuart and Hadow Short Story Prize 2023 (second place)
The Ekphrastic Review
The Masters Review Reprint Prize 2023 (longlist)
The Ros Spencer Poetry Prize 2023 (accepted for publication in Brushstrokes IV)
Marj Wilke Short Story Award 2022, Women Writers Queensland (highly commended)
The Drabble
Portside Review, Issue 7
Mountain Bluebird Magazine, Issue 1
  • The Perils of Caring (poem)
100 Word Project
  • Haunted House (micro fiction)
Instantáneas de Ficción Vol. 3
Brushstrokes II (anthology)
  • Matriliny (poem)
Grieve 2021 (anthology)
  • My Father’s Hands (poem)
Underground Writers Zine Issue #34 (Fan Fiction)
  • You Can Have it All (poem)
Rabbit #32 (Form)
  • Boys Standing on a Footpath (poem)
Society of Women Writers WA:
Bronze Quill Award 2020 (winner)
A Sense of Place (2020 – anthology)
  • The Summer People (short fiction)
The Cyberettes (2021 – anthology)
  • Timothy and the Crocodile (short fiction)
Peril Magazine
Heroines Women’s Writing Prize 2020: The Neo Perennial Press
  • Highly Commended (short fiction)
Ellipsis Zine
Modern Loss
  • Loss Squared (personal essay/memoir)
Pank
  • Pictures of You (personal essay/memoir)
It Starts With Hope
  • Immortal Hope (poem)
SheKnows:
  • ‘I force my kids to take selfies with me and I’m not the least bit sorry” (personal essay)
Dead Housekeeping

©Asha Rajan 2019

Profile image credit: Kelly Hammond Photography

Header image credit: Jess Gately