MATILDA DIXON-SMITH
writer + editor
Matilda Dixon-Smith is a writer and editor living and working on unceded Gadigal land.Matilda is available for freelance and other short-term contract writing and editing work. She specialises in culture and entertainment writing; profiles and interviews; creative non-fiction and personal essay writing; manuscript assessments for middle-grade, YA and adult writing;and a range of copywriting, editing and proofreading work.
Change-makers: the pin-up book of pioneers, troublemakers and radicals by Matilda Dixon-Smith, ills. by Emma Munger (Smith Street Books, 2018)
"Is the Literary Industry Even Worth Saving" (Meanjin, Winter 2023)
"We Talked to Timothée Chalamet About 2017’s Best Film" (Vice, 2017)
"Dance with Tom: an irresistibly joyous show for bubs who like to bop" (Guardian, 2026)
"Growing Up" (Meanjin, 2021)
"‘My Politics – It’s Not a Brand’ -- Conversation with Zoë Coombs Marr" (KYD, 2018)
"Swimming, my body and fat summers" (SBS, 2017)
"Women work well together: The feuding stereotype must end" (ABC, 2017)
Writing and Journalism
Matilda Dixon-Smith's writing has been widely published in most major news broadsheets, entertainment outlets and literary magazines in Australia.Her work has appeared in Guardian Australia, ABC News, SBS, The Sydney Morning Herald, Vice, Junkee, Broadsheet, The Big Issue, Meanjin Quarterly, Overland, Kill Your Darlings and Going Down Swinging, among other outlets. Links to some of Matilda's favourite published works can be found in the gallery above.Matilda is also the author of Change-Makers: the pin-up book of pioneers, troublemakers and radicals (Smith Street Books, 2018).
Editing
Matilda has worked as an editor for print and online publications, and she began her career in trade publishing at Penguin Random House.She has also worked as a casual academic at The University of Melbourne and Deakin University, teaching writing and editing at a graduate level.Matilda specialises in children's and young adult literature, and has assessed and provided editorial feedback on a number of children's, YA and adult mansucripts in development.
Professional and copywriting
Matilda has worked as a professional and copywriter for over a decade, working across professional sectors such as the arts and media, law and business, and public relations.
Matilda Dixon-Smith acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which she lives and works, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. She honours the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who are the first storytellers of this land, and pays her respects to their Elders past and present . She recognises that this land was never ceded. Always was, always will be.