Jo Austen

Printmaker & writer

I am an artist, printmaker and writer living in rural Kent.

In both my artwork and writing, I explore the incongruous, the unexpected and patterns both unintentional and designed. I am drawn to landscapes and fairy tales with their resonance of the process of change.

Visual arts

Please see gallery of my work here.

Writing

Novels:

Pomegranate

Dyscircadia

Forty-Two - Long-listed for the MsLexia Novel Award, 2022.

Short Stories:

‘Marmalade’ — Highly Commended in Leaf Writers Competition and published in Foresight with Hindsight (2010)

Articles & Essays:

Female Initiation Rites in Fairytales: why the good mother has to die 
- content journal, issue 4: capri, 2018

Poisonous Apples and Grim(m) Gingerbread Houses: on the subversive role of food in fairytales - content journal, issue 3: ukiyo, 2018