Scott-Patrick Mitchell

Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a non-binary West Australian poet and the recipient of the 2022 Red Room Poetry Fellowship, a 2022 Westerly Mid-Career Fellowship and an INSPIRE Residency through WA’s National Trust. Mitchell's debut poetry collection, Clean, was released in 2022 and has been shortlisted for the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Poetry, Book of The Year in the 2023 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for Poetry.

Articles by Scott-Patrick Mitchell:

3 June 20243 June 2024 · Literature

Writing on addiction: a conversation between Scott-Patrick Mitchell and Alan Fyfe

Alan Fyfe and Scott-Patrick Mitchell

Scott-Patrick Mitchell’s Clean and Alan Fyfe’s T are books with a deep relation. A poetry collection and a novel respectively, Clean and T were released within less than a year of each other and attracted multiple award listings; and both deal with methamphetamine use in Western Australia, a state which consumes the drug at almost twice the national average.