Vennsquidink / Jen Saunders – writes songs, stories, essays and poetry.
In 2024 Jen Saunders won the South Coast Writers Centre Poetry award, judged by esteemed poet Judith Beveridge, with this poem: ‘A Kiting of Spiders‘.
In 2017 Jen was shortlisted in the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and in 2016 was shortlisted in the joanne burns MicroLit Award.
The chapbook ‘In a Night House’ (2002) is available at presspress.
A story, ‘The Swooping Season’, is over at Baby Teeth Journal. A short essay, ‘Taken for granted: maps, stories, disruption’, is at The Sociological Review. And another essay, ‘Small histories’ can be read at The Conversation.
Vennsquidink writes at substack and occasionally makes zines called ‘Igloo Ivee’, available from the wonderful stickyinstitute