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Thanks to Creative Australia for the generous grant to revise and finish my novel manuscript. December 2023

Emerging Writers Festival 2023: 16 June Melbourne

I gave a workshop titled Memoir for Change on the craft of memoir and its capacity for social change. Part of a day-long Memoir Masterclass (with Jenny Valentish, André Dao, Eda Gunaydin, Kris Kneen, Natasha Sholl, Jess Ho talking all things memoir, from research to form, ethics to marketing)

Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival 2023: 10-11 June

In Conversation: Janine Mikosza with Claudine Tinellis

Going Home: panel discussion with Janine Mikosza, Kim Mahood & Gail Jones (moderator)

The World, Pocket-Sized: panel discussion with Janine Mikosza, Fiona Kelly McGregor, Kim Mahood & Claudine Tinellis (moderator)

Bad Diaries Salon — NOTES: 18 May 2023

with Janine Mikosza, Pirooz Jafari, Angela Savage, Sarah Schmidt, Justine Sless & Tracy Farr

Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival 2023: 4-5 March

Memoir — What is it good for?

Panel discussion with Janine Mikosza, Peter Coleman, Justine Sless & Andrea Rowe (moderator)

The Guardian’s 25 Best Australian Books of 2022

‘Janine Mikosza presents her stunning memoir as a long conversation between two warring halves of herself…’

The Guardian

Best reads of the year: Top writers reveal the books they loved in 2022

‘Brilliant and original memoir’

Sydney Morning Herald/The Age

Home and Belonging: In Conversation with Pirooz Jafari and Janine Mikosza

At Space2bDesign - an organisation for newly arrived migrants and refugees to exchange knowledge, ideas and skills with local community based artists and designers. 144 Chapel St, St Kilda

22 September 2022

Twenty Questions — Janine Mikosza Leaf Bookshop

The Next Big Thing: Living Memory Reading from Homesickness

The Wheeler Centre — Melbourne 30 May 2022

‘Janine Mikosza on reinventing the trauma memoir.’

Interview/profile — The Guardian, 24 May 2022

(Photo by Alana Holmberg/Oculi)

Ten Questions with Janine Mikosza Booktopia, 26 May 2022

Short story Legacy shortlisted for the 2019/20 Fish Publishing Short Story Prize (IRE) Judged by Colum McCann

Short story Tuna Mornay published in the Jan/Feb 2020 issue of Kenyon Review

Copyright Agency Cultural Fund IGNITE Grant of $4,800 for a mentorship with Sarah Sentilles to complete Homesickness, a creative nonfiction manuscript on the power of childhood homes, 2019

Honorable Mention in the 2018 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition Judged by Colum McCann

Creative Victoria VicArts Grant — $15,000 to develop Homesickness, a creative nonfiction manuscript on the power of childhood homes, 2018

Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund — $2,170 for a research trip and writing residency at Bundanon. Thank you to the Myer Foundation and Writers Victoria. 2018

Bundanon Trust Artist-in-Residence, 2018



Public reading — WIP Homesickness for Off Track Vol.7 at Clovelly Social House, Sydney. Organised by visual artist Nola Farman. Fellow readers were Jane Skelton and Nola. 8 November 2018

Artist-In-Residence, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia. Month-long residency to develop Homesickness and begin collaborative work on The Share House Project with visual artist Stephanie Jones, 2018

ACT Writers Centre Hardcopy Program — Development of WIP Homesickness, 2017

Flash fiction No Skin shortlisted for the 2017 Fish Publishing Prize (IRE) Judged by Colum McCann

Shortlisted — Varuna Publishing Introduction Program for fiction manuscript Punchline.

Varuna Residency Fellowship 2016

Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, short story, 2015

Short story, Monkey Boy, one of five stories shortlisted from the Oceania Region, Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2014

Special commendation — D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship for Emerging Writers, Australian Centre Literary Awards, 2012