JONATHAN O’BRIEN — CV
https://jonobri.com/
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 JONATHAN O’BRIEN                                                                   [HOME] [WRITING] [PROJECTS] [ADVISORY] [CV]
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 A person is what they do,
 and who they do it with.

 I began my career in writing and publishing, and ran an artist residency in
 Brisbane that ran up against zoning. Now I work in public policy, analysing and
 communicating solutions to the problems our nation needs to solve.



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 YIMBY Melbourne                                                 Inflection Points
 2023—CURRENT                                                    2025—CURRENT

 Australia's foremost supply-side policy organisation.           Australia's newest, greatest, and only long-form policy
 I lead and build our organisation's capacity, including         magazine.
 end-to-end research, communications, fundraising, and policy    I commission and edit longform writing on Australia's most
 transformation.                                                 pressing policy questions, to help build a bigger, better
                                                                 Australia.
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   YEAR    TITLE                            KIND        DETAIL                         STATUS
 ○ 2025    EMERGENT VENTURES                AWARD       MERCATUS CENTER                AWARDEE                         [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2023    CHAPTER ONE PRIZE                AWARD       AAWP                           WINNER                          [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2023    COMMONWEALTH SHORT STORY         AWARD       COMMONWEALTH FDN               LONGLISTED
 ○ 2023    FUNDRAISE FOR AUSTRALIA          FELLOWSHIP  FUNDRAISING ACADEMY            COMPLETED                       [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2023    QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARD        AWARD       YOUNG WRITER & PUBLISHER       WINNER                          [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2020    ASSOCIATE FELLOW (AFHEA)         FELLOWSHIP  ADVANCE HE (UK)                AWARDED                         [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2020    FLINDERS AUSSTAGE PRIZE          AWARD       THEATRE STUDIES (ADSA)         WINNER                          [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2020    LORD MAYOR'S FELLOWSHIP          FELLOWSHIP  BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL          AWARDED                         [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2020    QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARD        AWARD       GLENDOWER EMERGING             SHORTLISTED                     [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2019    PLAYLAB INCUBATOR                FELLOWSHIP  WRITERS' FELLOWSHIP            COMPLETED                       [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2019    RTP SCHOLARSHIP                  SCHOLARSHIP QUT                            AWARDED                         [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2018    HILL END AIR                     RESIDENCY   HILL END, NSW                  COMPLETED                       [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2018    VARUNA WRITERS' HOUSE            RESIDENCY   BLUE MOUNTAINS                 COMPLETED                       [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2017    YOUNG WRITERS AWARD              AWARD       STATE LIBRARY QLD              WINNER                          [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2016    MONASH PRIZE                     AWARD       CREATIVE WRITING               SHORTLISTED                     [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2015    RICHELL PRIZE                    AWARD       HACHETTE / GUARDIAN            SHORTLISTED                     [OPEN ↗]
 ○ 2014    CREATIVE WRITING PRIZE           AWARD       QUT                            WINNER

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 Jonathan O'Brien is the CEO of [YIMBY Melbourne ↗], Australia's foremost             +-- [HEADSHOT.JPG ↗] --------------------+
 supply-side policy organisation. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of long-form         |:.::::::::::::*#****%%*+##**%#*%#**##*% |
 policy journal [Inflection Points ↗], and a Queensland Literary Award–winning        |............ .*%%%%%%%####*#%#*%#**#**# |
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 Jonathan’s first non-fiction book, [Boundless ↗], will be out with Hardie Grant in   |:...:.:::.#@@%#=-:...:-+@@%#%*#%**##**# |
 2027. He is a 10% pledger with [Giving What We Can ↗].                               |...:.::::-=#@%**+=:=+**+*%*#%*#%***#**# |
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