Kim Aikman
Writer
Kim Anneli Aikman is a writer, living in Walyalup (Fremantle), Western Australia, with her husband and four children.
In 2019, her manuscript, Heartwood, was chosen by Allen & Unwin for the Publisher Introduction Program Fellowship at the Varuna Writers Centre. From 2021-2023, she was a fellow of the FAWWA Four Centres Emerging Writers’ Program. During 2023, Kim studied novel writing at the Faber Writing Academy, and was a residential fellow at the KSP Writers’ Centre. In 2024, she participated in the Granta Writing Memoir Workshop over the course of six months.
Kim is currently writing her thesis: a memoir-in-essays exploring the complicated dynamic between mothers and daughters.
Kim holds a BA in English Studies from the University of Nottingham and a MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. She has also studied editing, publishing, fiction writing, journalism, and scriptwriting, and is presently on the cusp of completing a Master of Arts (Literature & Writing) at Deakin University.
Alongside reviewing books, films, and restaurants, Kim has worked in publishing, documentary production, bookselling, and, perhaps most notably, as a library assistant at the Scottish Poetry Library. For several years, she wrote a blog about motherhood and creativity. Her writing has appeared in The Independent, The List, Mslexia, Essence, Verandah, Westerly, Meanjin Quarterly, and Gems Zine.
