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Alicia Sometimes is a poet, writer, broadcaster and musician. She has been published in Australia and overseas in such publications as Best Australian Poems 2006 and 2009, Cordite, Verandah, Westerly, Heat, Southerly, Poetrix, Short Fuse, Hecate, papertiger, Blue Dog, Overland, Meanjin etc. She has performed spoken word over 400 times as a feature or guest at many venues, festivals and events in Australia, Berlin, London and New Zealand, including the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne Writers Festival, Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Mildura Arts Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, The Big Day Out and the Newcastle Writers Festival also appearing on the SBS TV program Nomad and ABC TV shows Recovery and Sunday Arts. Her work has appeared on many spoken word CDs,  including Going Down Swinging, You Talkin To Me?, Short Fuse (US) and Synaptic Graffiti. She has two collections of poetry, kissing the curve and Soundtrack.
Alicia conducted many workshops in cities and regional areas working with communities to showcase poetry performances. She has also been awarded residencies at Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre, Varuna and the Melbourne Aquarium.
Alicia has supported such wonderful acts as Kathy Acker, Dave Graney, John Clarke, Lucksmiths, Spiderbait, Les Murray, Dorothy Porter, Sam Sejavka, Paul Stewart, Lisa Miller, Fiona Horne and many others.
She has interviewed the likes of Geoffrey Robertson, David Suzuki, Sage Francis, Laurie Anderson, Henry Rollins, Gene Simmons, Ben Elton, John Cooper Clarke, George Negus, Peter Singer, Peter Temple, Kerry Greenwood, Allison Dubois, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Robert Dessaix, Delia Falconer, Raimond Gaita, Kate Grenville, Sonya Hartnett, Michael Leunig, David Mitchell, John Shelby Spong, Barry Jones, Lemn Sissay, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Nick Earls, Robert Fisk, Dorothy Porter, Victoria Hanna, Victoria Stanton and many more...

She has had work commissioned for State Library of Victoria, Victoria Museum, Art Gallery of Victoria, Writers' Radio and the Red Room Project. Her work has been on radio many times: JJJ, 3RRR, 4ZZZ, 774, 3PBS, 3CR, 2SER, 5UV, Radio National, BBC, ABC Hobart, Kimberley and Darwin. She is currently a presenter on 3RRR with a weekly show Aural Text dedicated to playing spoken word and in 2002 was a monthly guest on JJJ's Artery showcasing the best in spoken word from around Australia. In 2004 she was co-organiser of the first national poetry radio slam on Radio National. She was co-editor of the literary journal Going Down Swinging for seven years.