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
Appearing In
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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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Monday 19 June, 8pm
Scream Scenes
It’s fright night, so prepare for an evening of spooky and silly stories backdropped by matching cinema projections
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Wednesday 21 June, 7pm
EWF X AMWP: Spillways
In this fluid display of literature, writers will perform in Urdu, Hindi, French, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, English and Spanish to promise an evening of waterworks.
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Saturday 17 June, 10am
Ambassador Panel
Kick off the National Writers’ Conference with a panel featuring this year’s incredible Ambassadors.
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Saturday 17 June, 1:45pm
Bella Li: Composition as Explanation
What is it we do when we write? How does composition relate to vision? Bella Li discusses two particular methods of composition – collage and ekphrasis – as well as general compositional principles of structure and sequence, in works of poetry.
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