Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, poet and essayist. She is a contributor to Australian literary journals including Cordite Poetry Review, Kill Your Darlings, Overland, the Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Rabbit Poetry, Meanjin, Red Room Poetry and Sydney Review of Books. Vucic has lived in Glasgow, Berlin, Konjic and Melbourne.
Early life Vucic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Bosniak family. As a child, she emigrated to Australia as a refugee during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995, along with her mother and sister. 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.
Education Vucic was awarded a PhD in English literature from the University of Glasgow.
Career She was selected for Kill Your Darlings' New Critic Program in 2023. In September 2025 she was appointed as the reviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review. She received the 2025 Red Room Fellowship. Her first poetry collection, after war, was released in 2026. She is the fiction editor at SAND.
Awards and fellowships +YearNominated workPrizeCategoryResultRef.2025"Contrapuntal Facing Houla, Southern Lebanon"Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary WritingPoetry Open CategoryShortlistedCopyright Agency Ltd Cultural Fund FellowshipsFrank Moorhouse Fellowship for Young WritersWinner2024"Blagaj, Mostar"Peter Porter Poetry PrizeShortlisted"Because a Wind Blazes"Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New & Emerging Poets2023"my father sits in a room alone"Newcastle Poetry Prize"Everything I Don’t Know How to Say / sve što ne znam kako da kažem"Woollahra Digital Literary AwardNon-Fiction2022Marten Bequest ScholarshipProseWinnerA TeleologyPeter Blazey Fellowship2021Kat Muscat Fellowship2020Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship"Kin"Woollahra Digital Literary AwardNon-FictionShortlistedNillumbik Prize for Contemporary WritingEssay2019"A Teleology of Folding, and of Dying"Deakin University Nonfiction Prize
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