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SAVE THE DATE for the launch of the Heroines Anthology of Poetry hosted by Poetica at Woolahra GalleryIn Volume 5 of the Heroines Anthology women poets rewrite or reimagine women in myth, fairy tale, folklore, legend, or history. Come along and meet Ninshubur, Kwannon and Giubiana, Havvah, Rhiannon and Mnemosyne, dryads and selkies, muses,poets, manasa and space explorers, and many more.
The launch features poetry readings from:
Jennifer Harrison
Kathryn Reese
Denise O'Hagan
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya
& Heroines Anthology editor, Sarah Nicholson
VOLUME FIVE AVAILABLE NOW - https://www.writingtheheroine.com/store/p/volume-5-heroines-an-anthology-of-poetry
BIOS
Jennifer Harrison has written eight books of poetry, most recently ‘Anywhy’ (Black Pepper 2018). A new collection ‘Sideshow History’ is forthcoming in 2024. She is Chair of the World Psychiatry Association’s Section for Art and Psychiatry and received the 2012 Christopher Brennan Award for sustained contribution to Australian poetry. Recent work has appeared in ‘Australian Book Review’ 2022, ‘Best of Australian Poems’ 2022, ‘Rabbit’ 2022, ‘Australian Poetry Journal’ 2023, ‘The Hyacinth Review’ 2023 (USA), ‘Unusual Work’ 2023 and ‘The Fourth River’ 2023 (USA). Jennifer won the 2023 Troubadour International Poetry Prize (UK).
Kathryn Reese is a poet and an occasional writer of flash fiction living on Peramangk land in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Her writing embraces themes of queer love, identity, nature and place. Her work can be found in the “anti-lit mag” JAKE, the UK speculative zine Voidspace and eco-poetic destinations such as Paperbark and Kelp Journal. Her flash fiction The Principal and the Sea, was published by Glassworks and received a Best of the Net nomination.
Denise O’Hagan is a Sydney-based poet and editor who was raised in Rome and has a background in academic book publishing. She was Poetry Editor (Australia/New Zealand) for The Blue Nib until 2020. Her poetry is published internationally and her recent awards include the NSW Poetry Prize and the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize. She is currently writer in residence at Don Bank Museum, Sydney, where she is working on her third collection, What the Mirror Tells.
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya is a writer and an artist with a strong natural science background. She was born in Crimea (Ukrainian Republic of USSR) studied physics and philology, and earned a PhD in Russian experimental poetry. Tatiana is an author of a great number of publications in Russian including award-winning collections of short stories and essays. Her poetry and short stories in English appeared in London Grip; POEM; Rochford Street Review; Can I tell you a secret; Not So Quiet; Skywriters; Across the Russian Wor(l)d; Bridges; Transitions; East West Literary Forum; Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and other editions. She participated in more than twenty art exhibitions in Russia, Europe, USA and Australia. Tatiana is also a researcher and an organiser of cultural projects, including three Australian Festivals of Russian Traditional and Experimental Literature (2006-2010); Mathematics and Arts seminar; GolosA Festival of Combinatorial Poetry (2014). Tatiana is an editor of Articulation literary journal (in Russian and English) and Board member of Moscow PEN.
Sarah Nicholson is the creative director of The Heroines Festival and editor of the Heroines Anthology, established in 2018. She is the Director of the South Coast Writers Centre, founding Director for the South Coast Writers Readers and Writers Festival, and Manager of the True Story Festival. She has a PhD in literature and feminist philosophy of religion and has previously worked as an academic in the field of creative arts, religion, philosophy, and literature. She has been an awardee of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust for Literature, recipient of a Writer’s and Translator’s Centre of Rhodes fellowship and an Emerging Writer in Residence for the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, 540 New South Head Rd, Double Bay NSW 2028, Australia,Sydney, Australia, Rose Bay