About




Nicole Cadelina is a writer and critic living in Sydney on unceded Darug land.

Writing across reviews, essays and creative non-fiction, Nicole’s writing has appeared in Rough Cut, Kill Your Darlings and Liminal Review of Books. She is the current Editor in Chief & Managing Editor at The Western, an online magazine based in Sydney’s west.

Nicole is an alumna of MIFF Critics Campus and Varuna WestWords Fellowship. She is a current recipient of the Blacktown Arts Main Street Studio, where she is developing a short film trilogy exploring Filipino Australian narratives through Catholic poetica. The first short in the trilogy, Santa Niña, is slated for completion this year.

Outside writing, Nicole works in digital marketing. Her favourite genre of film is SBS World Movies after 9pm.

I write and create on the land of the Darug people, the Traditional Custodians of the Darug nation. I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present, and continue to acknowledge their connection to country, land and sea.