About Roz

Roz’s writing has appeared in The Big Issue, Crikey, Everyday Feminism, Going Down Swinging, the Guardian, Huffington Post, Island Magazine, Junkee, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, Overland, pedestrian.tv, SBS, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the anthologies Living and Loving in Diversity (Wakefield Press), Going Postal: More Than ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ (Brow Books) and Growing Up Queer In Australia (Black Inc.). Roz recently completed Mood, a debut memoir about mental illness, queerness and Jewish identity.

They are the online editor at Archer Magazine and a PhD candidate at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University researching life writing as a creative health promotion method.

Roz is an experienced public speaker, interviewer and moderator. They have performed their work and presented at events including the Emerging Writers’ Festival, the Melbourne Fringe Festival, the National Young Writers’ Festival and Queerstories. They have been interviewed on podcasts, ABC Radio Sydney, Joy FM, 3CR, Bent TV (Channel 31) and SBS. They run writing workshops for all ages and they are a mentor and manuscript assessor at Writers Victoria. 

Writing

You can read my selected works here, including essays and articles, and details about my memoir, Mood.

Appearances

Find details about upcoming appearances, including festivals, panels, launches and readings.

Workshops

I run fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry writing workshops for all ages and levels of experience.