Angela Costi
Angela Costi is a poet, playwright, essayist and reviewer with backgrounds in social justice and community arts. The author of five well-received poetry books/manuscripts, nine produced plays and four video-poems.
In 1995, she received a travel award from the Australia National Languages Board to study Ancient Greek drama in Greece. She was writer-in-residence at the former Kensington Public Housing Estate on the 'Relocated' arts project, which received the national award for community innovation, 2002.
In 2009, the Australia Council for the Arts supported her poetry, 'A Nest of Cinnamon', to be part of a Japan-based collaboration (Cordite Poetry Review essays 2009 and 2013). Another essay about Jordie Albiston's poetry is in Rochford Street Review, 2021.
Her writing is widely published overseas and across Australia including APJ, Meanjin, Overland, Hecate, Southerly, Antipodes. The videopoem of her award-winning poem, 'Shelter', was selected for the Worldwide Reading for the Pandemic 2021 (International Literature Festival Berlin).
She received the High Commendation for Contribution to Arts and Culture, Moreland Award 2021 for her poetry. City of Melbourne funding enabled her to work on her sixth poetry manuscript.
Her poetry has been placed/shortlisted in a number of awards including Woorilla, Meniscus, Spineless Wonders and joanne burns Microlit. In 2022 she judged the MPU International Poetry Competition and the Five Islands Poetry Prize. She is a member of Andy Jackson's CollabOration Fellowship and is in the poetry group with Rose Lucas, Anne Elvey and Anne Carson. A member of SWWV, AAWP, MPU, Writers Victoria and Cypriot Global Writers.
Angela Costi manages an artist's FaceBook page dedicated to the practice of poetry writing and publishing, which is titled: AngelaCostiPoetics
She is a Poetry Editor at Kalliope X, biannual literary journal, and delivered poetry workshops as part of her residency at Brunswick Library. At the PoTM Symposium 2022, she is on a panel 'Manoeuvres with Memory'.
Costi's writing at Rochford Street Review
Costi's writing at Cordite Poetry Review
Costi's writing in StylusLit Issue 11
She is known as Αγγελικη Κωστη among the Cypriot diaspora, her heritage.
BOOKS with Five Islands Press: honey & salt
Latest poetry book: An Embroidery of Old Maps and New, Spinifex 2021