Arna Radovich

Arna writes for both adults and children. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in Poetry for the Planet, Verity La, Meniscus Literary Journal, the Forty South Short Story Anthology, Travel and Time (Spineless Wonders), FourW: New Writing, ZineWest, Verandah, and Islet, and other works have been performed at Summer Shorts and Little Fictions. Her non-fiction has been published both in print and online, and stories for children have appeared in The School Magazine, on Kids' Book Review, and in several anthologies. She  won the ZineWest 2020 Prize and 2nd prize in the 2019 Peter Cowan Short Story Award and has been a finalist in the 2018 Tasmanian Writers Prize, the Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award and the NWF/joanne burns Microlit Award.

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I  grew up living in different hotels around Australia with my Polish-Australian hotel manager parents. 

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 After dancing on stage and TV with a kids' dance troupe, I trained at the Sydney Acting School and worked as an actor (and in many other jobs!) before university study as a mature age student. I have a BA in Literary Studies and Journalism, a  GradDip in Adult Literacy Teaching and an MA in Education and I taught adult literacy and writing skills at TAFE for over ten years.

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Although I write for both adults and children, my current focus is on short form writing : flash fiction, microlit, short stories, non-fiction flash and poetry.

I live in the Blue Mountains, where I'm involved in an artist run initiative called Mounted  ARI. Since 2019, the Mounted Team have collaborated to develop and produce a range of art and literary exhibitions and events, with a focus on building community and providing a platform for local creatives.

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'Ths is your Captain' in Travel  (Spineless Wonders, 2022)

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'Speaking to the Narrative' in Poetry for the Planet, 2021

Kaylock, J and O'Hagan, D (eds) Litoria Press, Vic

'Meeting Magda'  in ZineWest 21 

Last Breath' in ZineWest 2020

'Skin and Bone' in Verity La

' Limits of Forgetting' in FourW Thirty: Pearl'

'How to go with the flow: A Survival Guide'  in

Story Cities: A City Guide for the Imagination,

Arachne Press, UK

'The Elephant in the Room' and 'We take our comfort

where we can' in

Meniscus Literary Journal 7.1

'The Brough of Birsay' in

Forty South Short Story Anthology 2018

'Here we Are' in Time  (Spineless Wonders, 2018)

'Stones' and 'Snap'

performed at Summer Shorts, January 2017

'1988' performed at Little Fictions, October 2016 and

Humans of Parramatta Road, 2017

'Who do you think you are?', 'Lincoln's Rock' ,

'Snap’ , ‘Separacja’  and 'Central Station 7.03' in ZineWest 

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‘Life Support’ in FourW 25 – New Writing

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‘Mountain Funeral’ (poem) in ZineWest 14

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‘Mosaic of Loss’ (poem) in As the Smoke Clears

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‘1966’ in Keepsakes Anthology (ed Sally Odgers)

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‘The Northern Road’ (poem) in ZineWest 13   

‘Room 301’ in Islet   

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‘Driss and Deidre’ in Verandah 19

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‘To flotilla or not' Cruising Helmsman Magazine

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‘At the other end of the hour’ in Warrior Women:

Fighting Breast Cancer  (UOW Press)

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'Innocence is Bliss’  in Newswrite

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‘The Poet of Oz’  in Pendulum 

‘Living with the Wolf’ in Link Magazine 

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‘This (cyclonic) Life’  in The Weekend Australian 

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‘The Ankle-biters’ Revenge’  in Berkshire County’s Child 

‘Song of Hope’ in Certified Male