Alicia Sometimes
Submitted by Liberty Victoria on Thu, 14/09/2017 - 16:10
Fearless Voices 'Shouter'
Alicia Sometimes is a writer, poet and broadcaster. She is a regular guest on 774, Radio National and is one sixth of The Outer Sanctum Podcast. Alicia was editor of the national literary journal Going Down Swinging for seven years.
Alicia was one of the 3RRR’s Breakfasters team in 2015 and was on Aural Text for fourteen years and has appeared in ABC TV's Sunday Arts and ABC News Breakfast. Her poems have been in Best Australian Poems, Overland, Southerly, Westerly, The Age etc.
She has performed her spoken word at many venues, festivals and events around the world including World Science Festival Brisbane, Quantum Words Festival, Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, Story of Light, Goa and many more.
Alicia has two poetry collections, kissing the curve and Soundtrack. She was a 2014 Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. She was also writer and director of the science-poetry show, Elemental which toured in 2015 and 2016.
Alongside Nicole Hayes, Alicia edited an anthology of footy stories called From The Outer (Black Ink 2016) with a list of incredible writers. They also put together A Footy Girl's Guide to the Stars of 2017 (Piccolo Nero) showcasing some star players of the inaugural AFLW season.
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