Bio
Vicki is a writer, poet and performer of spoken word.
In her ‘real’ life she works in a public library in the Youth Services area and runs a Storytime and two Tinies Times weekly.
WRITER
Diploma of Professional Children’s Writing
Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing
In 2005 Vicki won the Herb Thomas Memorial Trust Award for Excellence for graduating students at Chisholm TAFE
She has been on the editorial committee for Page Seventeen for the past few years and was the co-editor for 2010
She has shared her love of writing via talks with Chisholm Institute of Tafe’s Industry Overview, the Athenaeum Library, co- run a writing workshop and teaches creative writing at a local community centre.
Vicki has a poem and short story on the site Verity La and has a story in the anthology 100 Stories for Queensland.
She was the key note speaker and ran a short story workshop at Playing With Words, Sunday 11th July, at the West Gippsland Arts Centre for the Baw Baw Writers’ Network.
Her poem PJ was in the Australian Poetry Centre's Dear Dad anthology and she read her poem as part of the APC open day.
She won 1st prize in the 2010 Yarram Community Learning Centre Annual Literary Competition.
SPOKEN WORD
She has experienced the buzz of being in several poetry slams and placed well.
She was the feature poet at the Spinning Room in August and was a co-feature at the Warragul Literary Lunch.
She co-featured at Café Sospreso celebrating Motherhood with Tiggy Johnson, Geoff Fox, Amy Bodossian, Koraly Dimitriades and Di Cousens in June 2010 and at Passionate Tongues with Geoff Fox and Koraly Dimitriades in November 2010.
She appeared on 3CR Spoken Word May 13th and on Red Lobster Channel 31.
Vicki received an Encouragement Award at the Doris Leadbetter Melbourne Poetry Cup Prize 2009.
She featured at Westword@The Dancing Dog Café in October 2009.
BLOG - Storytime-vikth.blogspot.com
MEMBERSHIPS
She is a member of the Victorian Writer's Centre
The Melbourne Poet's Union
Is one of the founding members of the Lazy River Writers
CREDITS
Include radio stations 3RRR, MDR, 3WBC and 3CR Community radio
Channel 31's Red Lobster
Performances at the Drouin Ficifolia Festival, the Red Room, Overload Poetry Festival, Montsalvat Poetry Festival, Westword, and the Spinning Room.
She has also ventured to venues such as
Babble
Passionate Tongues
Eltham Courthouse
Blue Velvet Bar
Overload Poetry Festival
Word Tree
The Hut
Cafe Sospreso
Stoppingallstations
Her poetry, articles and short stories have been published in a variety of publications including
Pendulum
Gardnening Australia
Tamba
Woorilla
The mod_piece
Blue's Country Magazine
The Aussie Post
That's Life! Fast Fiction
Pearson Education
Debriefed (e-zine)
Poetrix
Polestar
Phaedra (USA)
Grass Roots
Going Down Swinging
New Writer Magazine
A Cruelworld
Taj Mahal Review and
Divan
Swinburne
The Box
Slippery When Wet
Page Seventeen
Southern Ocean Review (NZ)
Concelebratory Shoehorn Review
Her poem One of Those Days appears on the site poem a week.
In her ‘real’ life she works in a public library in the Youth Services area and runs a Storytime and two Tinies Times weekly.
WRITER
Diploma of Professional Children’s Writing
Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing
In 2005 Vicki won the Herb Thomas Memorial Trust Award for Excellence for graduating students at Chisholm TAFE
She has been on the editorial committee for Page Seventeen for the past few years and was the co-editor for 2010
She has shared her love of writing via talks with Chisholm Institute of Tafe’s Industry Overview, the Athenaeum Library, co- run a writing workshop and teaches creative writing at a local community centre.
Vicki has a poem and short story on the site Verity La and has a story in the anthology 100 Stories for Queensland.
She was the key note speaker and ran a short story workshop at Playing With Words, Sunday 11th July, at the West Gippsland Arts Centre for the Baw Baw Writers’ Network.
Her poem PJ was in the Australian Poetry Centre's Dear Dad anthology and she read her poem as part of the APC open day.
She won 1st prize in the 2010 Yarram Community Learning Centre Annual Literary Competition.
SPOKEN WORD
She has experienced the buzz of being in several poetry slams and placed well.
She was the feature poet at the Spinning Room in August and was a co-feature at the Warragul Literary Lunch.
She co-featured at Café Sospreso celebrating Motherhood with Tiggy Johnson, Geoff Fox, Amy Bodossian, Koraly Dimitriades and Di Cousens in June 2010 and at Passionate Tongues with Geoff Fox and Koraly Dimitriades in November 2010.
She appeared on 3CR Spoken Word May 13th and on Red Lobster Channel 31.
Vicki received an Encouragement Award at the Doris Leadbetter Melbourne Poetry Cup Prize 2009.
She featured at Westword@The Dancing Dog Café in October 2009.
BLOG - Storytime-vikth.blogspot.com
MEMBERSHIPS
She is a member of the Victorian Writer's Centre
The Melbourne Poet's Union
Is one of the founding members of the Lazy River Writers
CREDITS
Include radio stations 3RRR, MDR, 3WBC and 3CR Community radio
Channel 31's Red Lobster
Performances at the Drouin Ficifolia Festival, the Red Room, Overload Poetry Festival, Montsalvat Poetry Festival, Westword, and the Spinning Room.
She has also ventured to venues such as
Babble
Passionate Tongues
Eltham Courthouse
Blue Velvet Bar
Overload Poetry Festival
Word Tree
The Hut
Cafe Sospreso
Stoppingallstations
Her poetry, articles and short stories have been published in a variety of publications including
Pendulum
Gardnening Australia
Tamba
Woorilla
The mod_piece
Blue's Country Magazine
The Aussie Post
That's Life! Fast Fiction
Pearson Education
Debriefed (e-zine)
Poetrix
Polestar
Phaedra (USA)
Grass Roots
Going Down Swinging
New Writer Magazine
A Cruelworld
Taj Mahal Review and
Divan
Swinburne
The Box
Slippery When Wet
Page Seventeen
Southern Ocean Review (NZ)
Concelebratory Shoehorn Review
Her poem One of Those Days appears on the site poem a week.