Carielyn Tunion-Lam is a writer, videopoet, and cultural worker with a background in film and creative media. She recently completed a creative writing thesis through Western Sydney University, exploring narrative representations of Filipina womanhood through the figure of the aswang.
Carielyn’s work has been published & screened by RUSSH Magazine, Sydney Opera House, Fairfield City Gallery, Mascara Literary Review, kindling & sage, Emerging Writers Festival, KAP Magazine and more.
Her personal essay ‘INGAT, SIS’ was awarded Editor’s Choice in RUSSH Magazine’s 2025 Literary Showcase. She was shortlisted for the 2025 UQP Mentorship Prize for Under-Represented Writers, longlisted for the 2026 Richelle Prize, and is the recipient of the inaugural Antigone Kefala Memorial Prize.
She has spoken, performed, and hosted videopoetry workshops at the National Young Writers Festival 2025 and Red Dirt Poetry Festival 2026.
I acknowledge the Gadigal and Burramattagal peoples on whose unceded lands I live, write, work and tread softly. I acknowledge First Nations sovereignty and their deep, ongoing connections to land, sky, and waters across so-called Australia. I extend this acknowledgement to anticolonial struggle around the world—from Palestine to the Amazonas to Pasifika and the so-called Philippines.