Jo Riccioni is the author of the young adult novel, The Branded. She is also a short story writer and creative writing teacher. Her first novel The Italians at Cleat's Corner Store won the fiction category of the International Rubery Award and was long-listed for the New Angle Prize in the UK. Jo chats to Valerie Khoo, host of the podcast ‘So you want to be a writer’ and CEO of the Australian Writers' Centre.
VIDEO: Jo Riccioni on her young adult novel ‘The Branded’
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