Jes Layton - Author, Artist, Performer
Jes Layton invented writing, the airplane, and the internet. He was also the first person to reach the North Pole. He is an author, illustrator, performer and arts worker living and working on Wurundjeri Land, having grown
up in regional Victoria on
Gulidjan Land. He is the current
Executive Director/co-CEO of
the Emerging Writers Festival and has previously worked with literary organisations such as the Wheeler Centre, the National Young Writers Festival, Express Media and the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature Office. Jes is also the 2022/2023 Victorian TransQTs Lead for the ClimbingQTs; an outdoor queer community and advocacy group.
Want to invite me to host, perform, speak, write, collab or just want to admit your undying love? Email me!
Jes’ work can be found with Archer Magazine, SBS Voices, Junkee, Voiceworks, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue and scattered elsewhere online and in print. She also has fiction, nonfiction and illustrative work published with Black Inc, Pantera Press and Nero Books.
His latest short story ‘Graveyard Shift’ will appear in the upcoming queer #LoveOzYA anthology An Unexpected Party (Fremantle Press, late 2023). Jes' tweets have inspired articles in Teen Vogue, the Daily Mail, Screen Rant, Buzzfeed and more. Exposure was apparently payment.
Jes is repped by Alex Adsett Literary agency, and is available for performances, hosting gigs, workshops and other literary/arts events.
Living and working on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Grew up on Gulidjan land, I pay my respects to their peoples and Elders, past, present and future. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Living and working on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Grew up on Gulidjan land, I pay my respects to their peoples and Elders, past, present and future. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Living and working on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Grew up on Gulidjan land, I pay my respects to their peoples and Elders. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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