Claire Rosslyn Wilson is an Australia-born writer based in Barcelona, Spain. Her work spans fiction, poetry and nonfiction, exploring questions of place, cultural exchange and our relationship with the world around us.
Her poetry has been published in Australian and international literary journals, including Cordite, Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Axon, Transnational Literature and Voiceworks. Her video poems have been presented at international film festivals and exhibitions across Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, including the Vesuvius International Film Fest, Fotogenia Festival (Mexico) and Nature & Culture – Poetry Film Festival (Denmark). Her video poem ‘Threads’ received the award for Best Animated Videopoetry at the Vesuvius International Film Fest in 2022.
Claire is currently working on a novel, extending her literary practice into fiction. The novel is about a human-rights lawyer who finds out that those closest to her are involved in the sand mafia destroying her hometown. The novel comes out of Claire’s interest in the systems and ‘things’ that are an invisible, but fundamental, part of our everyday lives.
Alongside her creative writing, Claire has worked for more than a decade as a cultural writer and editor, contributing to international publications and cultural organisations, including On the Move, Asia-Europe Foundation’s Culture360, Atlas of the Future and Art Radar Asia. She has also held creative editorial volunteer roles with the human rights journal Right Now and literary journal Overland.
Claire holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Canberra and was awarded the Donald Horne Creative and Cultural Fellowship in 2024. Her international experience includes a visiting research position at the University of Barcelona and an artist residency at Culture Hub Croatia, supported by the European Union’s Culture Moves Europe programme.
Originally from Australia, and having lived for periods in Thailand and Singapore, Claire continues to draw on her experiences of living and working across cultures in her writing. Claire is now based in Barcelona, Spain.
CV
Education
PhD (2022), University of Canberra, Australia Thesis topic: ‘Applying a reflective translocal practice: Negotiating between creative practice and an unfamiliar culture’
2010 MA (Arts Management), RMIT University, Australia (awarded RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Excellence)
2007 CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults), Holmes College, Australia
2006 BA (Hons), La Trobe University, Australia
2005 Dip. Lang. (Spanish), La Trobe University, Australia
2001 Victorian Certificate of Education – Ashwood College
Programmes & residencies
2024 Residency at Culture Hub Croatia, Split, Croatia (supported by the Culture Moves Europe programme)
2024 Donald Horne Creative and Cultural Fellowship, University of Canberra, Australia
2024– Intercultural Companion, Migrantour Barcelona
2024 International Literature Exchange participant, National Centre for Writing (UK) and British Council
2023 International Online Residency Programme, MANGO Residencia para Artistas together and les Ateliers de Création et d’Expression Artistique
2016–17 Visiting Researcher at the Australian Studies Centre, University of Barcelona, Spain
2016 Craft Victoria Writing Programme, Melbourne, Australia
2014 The Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, Melbourne, Australia
Awards
Best Animated Videopoetry at Vesuvius International Film Fest, Italy, 30 December 2022 (for ‘Threads’)
Shortlisted for the Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award 2018 (for ‘State of the Earth’)
Poems published in the following:
Moving Poems, Cordite, Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, Verity La, Adani ebook, Coolabah, Socialist Alternative, Poetry d’Amour Anthology, Westerly (online), Axon, Australian Poetry Journal, Transnational Literature, Right Now, Offset 15, Verge, fourW nineteen New Writing, Voiceworks, Visible Ink.
Videopoems shown in the following:
42 Splitski Salon exhibition, Croatia; Fotogenia Vol. 5 festival, Mexico; Nature & Culture – Poetry Film Festival, Denmark; Edition VI at Marnay sur Seine exhibition, France; International Migration & Environmental Film Festival, Canada; Art for Air Festival, Thailand; Vesuvius International Film Fest, Italy; Belconnon Art Centre exhibition, Australia; Tranås at the Fringe – International Arts Festival, Sweden; REELpoetry/HoustonTX festival, USA; Poetry on the Move festival, online; ANCA Gallery exhibition, Australia, Espai SOUVENIR exhibition, Barcelona; 7th International Video Poetry Festival, Greece.
Creative writing editorial roles:
Creative writing editor for human rights journal Right Now (2016–2019); Poetry reader for Overland (2015–2019); Assistant editor/translator for Double Dialogues special edition with Catalan poets (2017); Reader for Alan Marshall Short Story Award, Nillumbik City Council, Australia (2015–16).
