Mia-Francesca Jones is a writer and researcher living on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Her writing has been listed for the Richell Prize, the Overland VU Short Story Prize and the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. She is the recipient of a Regional Arts Victoria Sustaining Creative Workers Grant, a City of Greater Bendigo Creative Recovery Residency, a matched funding boost from the Australian Cultural Fund, and a number of grants from JCU and RMIT University. She was a participant in Express Media’s Toolkits: Digital Storytelling, and is currently undertaking a PhD in creative writing and ecocriticism
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Mia-Francesca Jones
Appearing In
Saturday 17 June, 3pm
The Grant Scheme of Things
A session all about grants and funding for writers – do they exist, how do you get one, and what do you do once you do have one?
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Thursday 15 June, 7pm
The Sun, The Moon, The Stars
This group of emerging and established First Nations writers have summoned up their writing magic to share stories of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars
Saturday 17 June, 3pm
Yumna Kassab: The Physical Act of Writing
In this Keynote, Yumna Kassab will explore the rituals, tools, routines and environmental conditions that assist in a sustainable creative practice.
Wednesday 14 June – Saturday 24 June
Floodlight
Take a walk around Melbourne in the company of four storytellers using refrains of infrastructure, history, and memory to guide their routes.
Wednesday 21 June, 6pm
On Being Published
Learn about the multiple perspectives, considerations and voices that went into the telling of Sasha’s matriarchal family stories and about the rigorous, collaborative editing and publishing process.
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