Poems
On the Lists
Commended Woorilla Poetry Prize 2024
Heroines Women’s Writing Prize short listed
portrait of an artist as a c21st woman
Published
It Was Him
The Agitator, Pentecost 2024
portrait of an artist as a c21st woman
Heroines: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry 2024 (soon to be released)
Squares
Poetry of Home: The Liquid Amber Prize Anthology 2023
At Seventy-Two
Confessions Vol 9: Constellations. Boston USA 2019
These Days by Samantha Bews
Mark Time Books 2018
Excellent Failures
Artpuff
In 2022, Samantha responded to works at Artpuff gallery at The Mill in Castlemaine. Responses varied in form as poems, short story and reflections.
Delightful Conversations
Delightful Conversations is a collaboration between Samantha Bews as a crip writer/poet and Wes Campbell, a retired Uniting Church minister and visual artist who is living with Parkinson’s and Lewis Bodies dementia. Our collaboration is one that breeches the limits of normative function: celebrating excess, diverse intelligence and more-than-human experience. Wes is a life-long pacifist; and after many years of living with chronic illness, Samantha is the unseen, diffuse subject, writing herself.
Shooting Guns in a Leak Boat
The Firey Gates
Prayer to the God of First Light
BodyWise Somatics
BodyWise Somatics is the somatic healing, focusing, training practice run by Marg Peck, embodied health practitioner and all round wise-one. Samantha is part of the BodyWise Community, as an artist whose work rises from a fine-tuned listening to the body’s subtle whispers.
Collaborations
This House My Body in the installation This House My Body by Rachael Wenona Guy and Leonie Van Eyk
I Stay Awake All Night … I Sleep All Day with Rachael Wenona Guy