Samuel Watson

(he/him)

Samuel Watson is an (Ab)original ghost writer.  His late father, Sam Watson was a black panther who wrote the award-winning novel The Kadaitcha Sung, (Penguin Publishing).

Samuel lives and writes in his hometown of Brisbane, descending from Munanjali and Germanic heritage.  He has authored over a dozen collections of poetry, primarily inspired by the oral traditions of spiritual lore passed down from his elders.  Like Samuel’s verse his ghost stories are set in the southern suburbs of Brisbane city.  He has enjoyed success recently in the pages of the Griffith Review, Flock (UQP), Westerly and the Chicago Quarterly Review.  Notable accolades include the 1999 David Unaipon Award for Emerging Indigenous Literature, The Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. the 2004 New South Wales Premier’s Book of the Year and the 2018 Patrick White Literary Prize.