Poetry CornerPaperbark gossip by Jaya Penelope

Poet and storyteller Jaya Penelope is a dream cartographer, a cultivator of wonder, a tremulous archaeologist of buried voices and a lover of wild spaces. Jaya’s poetry has been shortlisted for The Heroine’s Women’s Writing Prize/Anthology (2020) and published in Indigo, Blue Dog, Creatrix, Voiceworks, Cuttlefish, Poetry d’Amour and The Breath of The Sea Anthology. You knocked out my walls, her spoken word collaboration with musician Gosia Winter was featured on Radio National’s Poetica.

Jaya runs weekly women’s Creative Writing Circles and monthly Sacred Story Circles from her home in Walyalup/Fremantle and is grateful to live, love and write on unceded Whajuk Noongar land.