January 22, 2019
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Steven's Bio
Steven (SJ) Finch is a writer and community artist. He was the former editor of dotdotdash, a WA creative literature and art journal. He has been published in Westerly, Voiceworks, Cottonmouth, Australian Poetry and by Fremantle Press. In 2015 Finch was the recipient of a CAL Writer in Residence Award from the Fellowship of Australian Writers WA; co-curated Anthologia with Alina Tang, an exhibition of floriographic poetry at Paper Mountain; and launched an ongoing nomadic residency where he lived in a self-made off-grid traveling yurt called grr for 15 months. In 2016 as part of The Blue Room Theatre's Summer Nights program, Finch hosted a mini-festival of storytelling and performance in the Grr called Grr Nights. He co-curated with Claire Bushby, Words Beyond Grammar, a group. He was a selected artist for the Perth International Arts Festival’s Artist Lab 2017, a Creative Producer intern for the Digital Writers Festival 2017, and a featured writer at the National Young Writers’ Festival 2017. He was formerly the Project Officer for National Youth Week, organising the KickstART Festival 2017 Propel Youth Arts WA and the inaugural Literary Youth Festival. He is the current Project Coordinator for Lotterywest Story Street, an ongoing storytelling project with Cultural and Linguistically Diverse Communities.
