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Write around the Murray proudly partners with Booranga Writers Centre, Wagga to bring a performance of Celebrating the Voice. This initiative of the South Coast Writers Centre, Centre for Canadian Australian Studies and the University of Wollongong's
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When two rural Aussie mums began a simple website to help themselves and other parents save time, save money and be planet friendly, they never dreamed that within two years it would be published into a book. Tiana Johannis and Amy Pleydon came up with
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He has been self publishing his own zines for over 10 years. Over this time he has put out over 30 publications of various names and types. He loves the immediate nature of self publishing and the community that surrounds Australian comics. “I really
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Dianne Wolfer is the author of 12 books for teenagers and younger readers. Her novels have been short listed for various awards and are read in schools within Australia and overseas. Photographs in the Mud was inspired by a research trip along the Kokoda
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Karen Tayleur lives in the hills of the Dandenong Ranges with her husband and two kids who always leave their homework to the last minute. As well as being expert at year seven German and Chinese and holding down a four-day-a-week job, she is a writer.
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A native of Northern Ireland, Dorothy Simmons graduated from Edinburgh University with a Master of Arts (Honours) in English Language and Literature. After a year of odd (very) jobs in Sydney, she went home to complete her Diploma of Education at Queens
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Gordon Reece is an English born writer/illustrator who emigrated to Australia in 2005. He now lives in Mudgegonga, North East Victoria with his wife Joanna and westie, Jock. Gordon has written and illustrated 12 children’s books to date for publishers
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Alice Pung is a Melbourne writer and lawyer. She was born in Footscray, and grew up in Braybrook, attending local primary and secondary schools in the Western suburbs. She has had stories and articles published in Good Weekend, Meanjin, The Monthly,
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Mandy Ord is a Melbourne based cartoonist and illustrator. Emerging from a painting background she discovered alternative comics at art school and was instantly attracted to the medium. She has self published her own comic books as well as contributed
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Michael McGirr was born in 1961. He is the author of the best-selling, Things You Get For Free, a comedy about travelling in Europe with his mother. He is also responsible for Bypass: the story of a road, a quirky biography of Australia’s main street,
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PD Martin – Phillipa Deanne Martin – lives in Melbourne, Australia and developed a passion for crime fiction and story telling at an early age. This interest was reinforced with formal education through a Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences (with majors
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Shane Maloney is one of Australia's most popular novelists. His award-winning and much loved Murray Whelan series — Stiff, The Brush-Off, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Fishy and Sucked In — is characterised by a strong sense of humour and an acute
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Alison Lester was born on the 17/11/1952 at Foster in Victoria, Australia. She grew up on a farm overlooking the sea and first rode a horse as a baby in her father’s arms. She still lives in the country and rides her horse whenever she can. Her picture
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Peter FitzSimons is a well respected columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, television presenter on Fox Sports. He speaks four different languages, has played rugby for Australia, co-hosted radio shows with Mike Carlton and Doug Mulray,
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After a 25-year career spanning radio, newspaper and magazine journalism, including editing two of Australia's top selling women's magazines, THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S WEEKLY and NEW IDEA, SUSAN DUNCAN woke up one morning and chucked in her job. The decision
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Campion is Artistic Director of HotHouse Theatre in Albury-Wodonga. His previous appointments include Literary Manager at Sydney Theatre Company, Artistic Director of Next Wave Festival, Festival Director for Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, and Chair
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Winner of the 2008 Vogel Literary Award, Andrew Croome was born in Canberra but grew up in Hobart and Albury/Wodonga. In 1998, he moved to Carlton to attend university and is yet to leave. He has worked as a computer programmer, creative writing tutor
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Helen Chamberlin was a secondary teacher of English and languages before she entered the publishing industry in 1971 as a trainee editor at Heinemann Educational Australia. She has worked in the industry every since, at first in educational publishing
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Vilma Cencic , grew up in Sydney and has always loved drawing. She went on to study Design at the University of Western Sydney with a major in illustration. Here she was given the chance to illustrate her first picture book Greener Than an Emerald written
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Bernard Caleo is a performer and a comic book maker. Presently he works at Melbourne Museum developing presentations which have interpreted exhibitions about bugs, mummies, the Great Wall of China, dinosaurs and Pompeii. He has also developed characters
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Janelle Bloom is one of this country’s most-loved food writers. She believes good cooking begins with confidence, a little patience and well written recipes that are easy to follow. She cares very much that each of her recipes is foolproof, uses seasonal
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Debra Adelaide is a novelist and academic, who has also worked as a book reviewer and editor. In 1990 Debra completed a PhD in Australian women’s writing at the University of Sydney. She is the author of the novels The Hotel Albatross (1995) and Serpent
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