Eli Sutherland is an award-winning non-binary, queer, and disabled writer, and a creative consultant working with non-profit organisations and freelance artists.
About Eli: the writer
Eli Sutherland is passionate about creating new sci-fi and fantasy worlds, queering mononormative relationship structures through their writing, and bringing writers together. They are a non-binary, queer, and disabled creative, the Festival Director of Trans Book Festival, previous Treasurer of the Board of Overland, and is studying a Master of Arts (Writing and Literature) at Deakin University.
Their writing has won and been shortlisted for numerous writing awards, and has appeared in the ABC, Cordite, Mascara Review, StylusLit, Swamp Magazine, Left Brain Media, ScratchThat Magazine, Queer Out Here, and more.
About Eli: the consultant
With over a decade in senior leadership positions in the not-for-profit sector, Eli has expertise across the breadth of organisational operations, including financial and people management, strategy development and implementation, and governance and compliance.
Eli consults with artists and arts organisations, as well as non-profits and for-purpose businesses to secure and acquit funding, create strong financial literacy and systems, develop and implement strategies, and enable robust and compliant governance.
What people are saying
“I trust Eli as someone in the creative world that I can go to for compassionate and sage advice, and for all the brain-muddling writing admin things like grant acquittals.”
Jasper Peach, writer and speaker
“It’s exciting work which I believe will make an important contribution to Australian literary culture and find a large audience amongst queer and trans readers who are eagerly seeking out radical queer writing.”
Sam Elkin, writer and event producer
“We just received a grant, and we agree it’s largely to do with what we learned from your support. Thank you once again! You’ve made a huge difference.”
Eleonora Bertsa-Fuchs, Managing Director, Let’s Talk About X
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