Position Freelance writer
Noëlle Janaczewska writes plays, monologues, spoken word, poetry, essays, gallery and on-line explorations, and radio scripts across drama and non-fiction. Her work has been performed, broadcast and published throughout Australia and overseas. The recipient of 5 AWGIE (Australian Writers’ Guild) Awards, her stage plays have won the Griffin Playwriting Award, the Playbox-Asialink Playwriting Competition and the 2006 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. Recent productions include: Random Red and Weeds Etc for ABC Radio National, Eyewitness Blues for the BBC and The Hannah First Collection, 1919—1949 for the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai. In 2008 Currency Press published Songket and This Territory in a 2-play edition, and her long poem Dorothy Lamour’s Life as a Phrasebook was published by Wayzgoose Press in 2006. Noëlle has extensive experience as a commissioned playwright, as a writer on community arts projects, dramaturg and writing teacher. Find out more about about her work, read excerpts and examples, at http://noelle-janaczewska.com