I’m your new best friend until you tell me otherwise.
Liana Black is a writer, editor, founder, feminist, queer advocate, and anguished sports fan.
She is the founder of Sugarbowl.ink, a digital and residency space for writers in Queensland, Australia.
She writes at the vertex where love and angst meet and ask the question why of each other.
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If you’re an angry woman, a flittery queer, a creative man, a sporty deep-thinker, or just an overthinker, you may like it here.
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About Liana Black
Liana has written professionally in Australia’s sports industry since 2018. She began freelance editing and critiquing works of fiction in 2020 and has helped develop works to publication, including short stories, personal essays, and full-length novels.
A neurodivergent queer woman with a severe case of extroversion, Liana always has ten projects on the go and can’t reach her own off-switch.
In 2025, her writing was publish in the Guardian Australia, highly commended by Faber Academy, and shortlisted by the Australian Writer’s Centre and the Kat Muscat Fellowship.
In 2026, she will complete and prepare her first two novels for submission and has founded Sugarbowl.Ink, a digital and residency space for writers in Queensland, Australia.
I’m headless but having fun
Sugarbowl.ink
in 2026, I have founded Sugarbowl.ink, a digital community space promoting storytelling in Queensland, with writing residencies launching in 2027, including fellowship and discounted places. Applications will open late 2026.
Writing
Read about my past and upcoming writing projects. In novels, I write at the vertex where love and angst meet and ask why of each other. Novels about messy love, romantic and platonic, queer lives, injustice and hope.
Travel, book reviews, food, drinks, writing, sport, friends, photos of me looking and feeling cute, what more could you want?
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