Dženana Vucic

Dženana Vucic
Born1991 (age 34–35)
Konjic, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow (PhD)
OccupationsWriter, poet, essayist
Writing career
LanguageEnglish, Bosnian
Websitedzenanavucic.com

Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, poet and essayist.[1] She[a] is a contributor to Australian literary journals including Cordite Poetry Review,[2] Kill Your Darlings,[3] Overland,[4] the Australian Multilingual Writing Project,[5] Rabbit Poetry,[6] Meanjin,[7] Red Room Poetry[8] and Sydney Review of Books.[9] Vucic has lived in Glasgow, Berlin, Konjic and Melbourne.[10][11]

Early life

Vucic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Bosniak family.[10] As a child, she emigrated to Australia as a refugee during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995, along with her mother and sister.[12] She has written extensively about her experiences with her family around this time, particularly regarding switching from speaking Bosnian to English after migrating to Australia.[12]

Education

Vucic was awarded a PhD in English literature from the University of Glasgow.[13][14]

Career

She was selected for Kill Your Darlings' New Critic Program in 2023.[15] As of September 2025, she is the reviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review.[16] She received the 2025 Red Room Fellowship.[17] Her first poetry collection, after war, was released in 2026.[18] She is the fiction editor at SAND.[19]

Awards and fellowships

Year Nominated work Prize Category Result Ref.
2025 "Contrapuntal Facing Houla, Southern Lebanon" Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing Poetry Open Category Shortlisted [20]
Copyright Agency Ltd Cultural Fund Fellowships Frank Moorhouse Fellowship for Young Writers Winner [21]
2024 "Blagaj, Mostar" Peter Porter Poetry Prize Shortlisted [22]
"Because a Wind Blazes" Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New & Emerging Poets [23]
2023 "my father sits in a room alone" Newcastle Poetry Prize [24]
"Everything I Don’t Know How to Say / sve što ne znam kako da kažem" Woollahra Digital Literary Award Non-Fiction [25]
2022 Marten Bequest Scholarship Prose Winner [26]
A Teleology Peter Blazey Fellowship [27]
2021 Kat Muscat Fellowship [28]
2020 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship [29]
"Kin" Woollahra Digital Literary Award Non-Fiction Shortlisted [25]
Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing Essay [30]
2019 "A Teleology of Folding, and of Dying" Deakin University Nonfiction Prize [31]

Notes

  1. ↑ Vucic uses she/her and they/them pronouns. This article uses she/her pronouns for consistency.

References

  1. ↑ "Dženana Vucic". UQP. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  2. ↑ "Dženana Vucic". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  3. ↑ "Dženana Vucic". Kill Your Darlings. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  4. ↑ "Dženana Vucic". Overland. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  5. ↑ "Dženana Vucic — Writing". Australian Multilingual Writing Project. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  6. ↑ "Gaj's Latin Alphabet by Dženana Vucic". Rabbit Poetry. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  7. ↑ Vucic, Dženana (2024-06-12). "Permission to narrate". Meanjin. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  8. ↑ "Dženana Vucic". Red Room Poetry. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  9. ↑ "Dženana Vucic". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  10. 1 2 Vucic, Dženana (14 August 2023). "Migratory Flights". Sydney Review of Books. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  11. ↑ "DŽENANA VUCIC". HAUS FÜR POESIE. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  12. 1 2 Vucic, Dženana (14 September 2022). "Everything I Don't Know How to Say / sve što ne znam kako da kažem". Cordite Poetry Review. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  13. ↑ Vucic, Dženana (2023). Writing, thinking, self: autotheory in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa, Paul B. Preciado and Maggie Nelson (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. doi:10.5525/gla.thesis.83416.
  14. ↑ "Dženana Vucic". Red Room Poetry. Archived from the original on 24 May 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  15. ↑ Vucic, Dženana (27 March 2023). "Disconnection and Dislocation in 'Once a Stranger'". Kill Your Darlings. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  16. ↑ Vucic, Dženana; MacCarter, Kent (2025-09-10). "Dženana Vucic on as Reviews Editor". Cordite Poetry Review. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  17. ↑ "Red Room Fellowship 2025". Red Room Poetry. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  18. ↑ "after war". UQP. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  19. ↑ "Team". SAND. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  20. ↑ "Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing". Nillumbik Shire Council. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  21. ↑ "Time to write: Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund names 2025 Fellowship recipients". Copyright Agency. 2025-10-30. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  22. ↑ "2024 Peter Porter Poetry Prize Shortlist". Australian Book Review. 2023-12-18. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  23. ↑ "Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 5 February 2024. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
  24. ↑ "2023 Newcastle Poetry Prize Shortlist Announced". Hunter Writers Centre. 2023-10-09. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  25. 1 2 "Past DLA Winners". Woollahra Municipal Council. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  26. ↑ "Recipients of our co-investment opportunities". Creative Australia. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  27. ↑ Jackson, Charles (2022-10-25). "Peter Blazey 2022 Fellowship". Faculty of Arts. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  28. ↑ "Announcing the 2021 Kat Muscat Fellow". Express Media. 10 March 2021. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  29. ↑ "Past Hot Desk Fellows". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  30. ↑ "Dženana Vucic". Peach Mag. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
  31. ↑ "Meet the 2019 Deakin University Nonfiction Prize shortlist - Dženana Vucic". Express Media. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 2026-05-11.
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