Author Bio Short (50 words)
Josephine Renee is a 25-year-old Brisbane author with a Bachelor of Creative Writing. She is a 2024 Brisbane Writers Festival Youth Ambassador, a two-time GenreCon short story winner, and a WhyNot creative resident. She has work published in WQ, WhyNot, Glass Magazine and more.
Instagram: @josephine_renee_official
Website: josephinerenee.com
Author Biography Long
Josephine Renee (she/her) is a 25-year-old queer Meanjin (Brisbane) Australian author and graduate of Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing, minoring in screenwriting for interactive environments. She is the two-time winner of the GenreCon Short Story Competition, and has volunteered at Brisbane Writers Festival 2022 – 2023 and was the 2024 Youth Ambassador. She was the president of the university’s Literary Salons, a Why Not Creative Resident, and the 2023 recipient of the Kellie van Meurs Memorial Writer’s Scholarship. She has travelled Europe and North Africa for two years, spent a year and a half in the USA, Canada, Cuba, and Mexico, and has recently returned from Africa. When not gaining world-building inspiration, she dedicates her time to writing and illustrating, with a self-published children’s book and dedicated readership on her web-comic. She has work published in Why Not, ScratchThat, WQ, Glass Magazine and more. Find her on Instagram @josephine_renee_official, YouTube @JosephineRenee, or at josephinerenee.com
Published Books
2020 May 1st Horn-Nhei first published online webtoons (ongoing) Webcomic
2019 October 15th Do You Fancy a Fairy Tale? (The Adventures of Jo and Hanna) Children’s Book published on Amazon
Higher Education
2022 – 2025 Bachelor of Fine Arts major in Creative Writing and minor in Writing for Interactive Environments, The Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Awards, Grants, Prizes
2025 winner of the Genrecon Short Story competition.
2023 winner of the Kellie van Meurs Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing for demonstrating a deep commitment to writing, outstanding academic merit, and an active contribution to the writing community at QUT.
2017 third place in Create Noosa, the world’s first inter-school Virtual Reality (VR) Art Competition.
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