Josephine Scicluna

Josephine writes poetry, fiction and also collaborates with musicians and sound artists for radio and reading events, which have been broadcast on ABC Radio National, Triple R and other community stations. Her poetry practices play with philosophy and other genres and negotiate contemporary themes including ecological concerns. She is currently revising a novel manuscript Thin House which was longlisted in 2020 for the Richell Prize. Her other works appear in Overland (New Fiction), The Conversation, TEXT, Slow Canoe, Bumf, In/Stead and Double Dialogues.

Josephine teaches literature, poetry writing and fiction writing and her research interests include: ideas of place and the way that sound creates place; heterotopias; and how artistic practice and its resultant works form counter-spaces in the everyday.

She is Co-covenor of Writers in Prison for the Melbourne centre of PEN International. In 2019 she and fellow committee members ran a panel series ‘Writers in Exile’ in partnership with The Wheeler Centre.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @josephinesci