Arianne James
Arianne is a writer of fiction and avid reader. She lives in Hobart on the beautiful island of lutruwita, Tasmania, surrounded by the ocean and an ever watchful mountain. Her stories have been published in The Hunter Writers Centre’s Grieve anthology, Swinburne University’s journals Backstory and Other Terrain, Corvid Queen magazine and Voices of the Southern Ocean. Arianne holds a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (2017) and First-Class Honours in Creative Writing (2019) from the University of Tasmania, and is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy (2024). Her writing has taken her on residencies to Varuna, KSP Writers Centre, Patterdale House and Chateau d’Orquevaux. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the HNSA Elizabeth Jane Corbett mentorship, and in 2022 shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Young Writers Fellowship at the Tasmanian Literary Awards. She works for TasWriters as their Program Coordinator and hosts The Book Shelf on Edge Radio (99.3FM), where she interviews people from the Tasmanian literary community and beyond. Arianne’s debut novel, ‘Second Skin,’ will be published by HQ/HarperCollins in 2026.
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