Upcoming artist-in-residence: Jo Langdon

Jo Langdon - photo by Sarah Walker

Jo Langdon is a writer who lives on unceded Wadawurrung Country in Geelong/Djillong, Victoria. She is the author of two poetry collections: a chapbook, Snowline (Whitmore Press, 2012), co-winner of the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize, and Glass Life (Five Islands Press, 2018). Jo's writing is also published in journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Griffith Review, Island, Meanjin, Overland and Southerly. In 2020 her short fiction was recognised in the Newcastle and Olga Masters short story awards, and she was the inaugural winner of the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. In 2018 Jo was a fellow of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation's Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria. She is also a casual academic who teaches into writing, literature and culture.

Glass Life, Jo Langdon, Five Islands Press, 2018

"... During my residency at Gunyah, I plan to complete my third poetry collection, TEMPER, which comprises new poetry interested in how female domestic experience 'figures' in art. My recent poems have included writing in response to the art and life of the Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow ..."

Snowline, Jo Langdon, Whitmore Press, 2012