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