Noëlle Janaczewska

About Noëlle Janaczewska

Noëlle writes poetry, plays, monologues, lyrics & libretti, essays and radio scripts across drama and non-fiction. Her works have been performed, published and broadcast throughout Australia and overseas. The recipient of numerous awards, the various Koreas (South, North and the diaspora) feature in several of her published and
produced works: The Seoul Breakfast Mystery, Kimch’i Connie, Cold Harvest, Connie and Kevin and the Secret Life of Groceries, Pyongyang Affair and most recently, the monologue/performance essay Unrequited. She made her first trip to South Korea in 1993 and since then has been back about half a dozen times – once on an Asialink Literature Residency, once thanks to a travel grant from the Australia-Korea Foundation. She has published poetry in anthologies (The Green Fuse), literary journals (Cordite, extempore) and on-line magazines (Black Market Review, UK). Her poem Salt Lemon was Commended in the 2010 Wigtown Poetry Competition (Scotland), and the poems she wrote for Kathryn Millard’s feature film Travelling Light feature on the soundtrack CD. In 2006 The Wayzgoose Press published her long poem Dorothy Lamour’s Life as a Phrasebook.