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David Stratton was born in 1939 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK. At the age of 19 he founded the Melksham and District Film Society. He emigrated to Australia in 1963 and later became Director of the Sydney Film Festival, a role which he held for 17 years. ... click headline for details
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HANNIE RAYSON is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University, and is ... click headline for details
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Australian adventurer Paula Constant began walking from Trafalgar Square, London in 2004. Since then, she has walked over 12,000 kilometres through France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, the Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali and Niger. After her West to East solo crossing of the Sahara was interrupted ... click headline for details
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Jacqueline Pascarl has worked in radio and television, and as a documentary filmmaker – her work including the award-winning documentary ‘Empty Arms - Broken Hearts’. In 1995, she moved into the area of child literacy and established ‘Operation Book Power’, a project operating in Kenya and South ... click headline for details
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Mark Olive (a.k.a "The Black Olive") has been a chef for over twenty years. Born in Wollongong in New South Wales, his passion for food began at an early age, watching his mother and aunts preparing and cooking food. ... click headline for details
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Felice Arena moved from entertaining audiences as an actor to making up stories to enthuse school children. The oldest of four children in a lively Italian family, he felt he “had to perform” from an early age. He continued with ... click headline for details
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Michael Pryor was born in Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia. He has worked in a scrap metal yard and as a drainer’s labourer, a truck driver, a tap salesman, an Internet consultant, a software developer, a secondary school teacher and ... click headline for details
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Libby Gleeson writes picture books, novels and short stories for young people as well as books about writing. Her work has been short listed for the Children’s Book Council of Australia wards eleven times. Hannah Plus One was the Junior Book of the Year in 1997, An Ordinary Day, illustrated by Armin ... click headline for details
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Rochelle Jackson is an investigative journalist and author of In Your Face: the life and times of Billy the Texan Longley. She specialises in crime and police stories. She has worked for the NSW Police Service, is currently a producer for ABC-Radio. ... click headline for details
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Richard Evans is a journalist and an academic. He has worked on newspapers and legal magazines, and was a lecturer in journalism at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). ... click headline for details
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Paul Gibbs has been a professional musician for over 23 years. He is an accomplished pianist, guitarist and vocalist who performs a wide variety of styles. He has taught contemporary keyboards/piano at the Murray Conservatorium since 2001. ... click headline for details
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Campion is currently the Artistic Manager of HotHouse Theatre located in Albury-Wodonga.
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 of the ... click headline for details
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"Cate Kennedy is the author of two collections of poetry - "Signs of Other Fires", (2001), which won the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, and "Joyflight" (2004). She has also ... click headline for details
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Jane Downing was born in Australia in 1962 but was taken to live on Manus, a remote island of Papua New Guinea, three weeks later. She has since lived in Tanzania, Ireland, Indonesia, the (then) USSR, China, the Marshall Islands and Guam, as well as Australia. Her education was at the closest school, ... click headline for details
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John Charalambous was born and educated in Melbourne. After an initial interest in painting and sculpture, he began writing in the early 1980s, and had short stories published in various small magazines. His first novel, Furies, was published by UQP ... click headline for details
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Carole is an elearning consultant providing online coaching and mentoring to educators across the learning disciplines. Carole lives in the Albury/Wodonga region and travels extensively in Australia providing professional development for teachers in elearning. ... click headline for details.
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Nathan Curnow is a writer from Portland, Victoria. In 2006 he toured Australia and New Zealand with his first collection of poetry, No Other Life But This (Five Islands Press). His prizes include the Woorilla Poetry Prize, the Bauhinia Literary Awards and the UMPA Prize for Poetry (University of Melbourne). In ... click headline for details
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Simon Higgins has worked as a disc jockey, marketing manager and monster in a sideshow ghost train. He also spent a decade in law enforcement as a police officer, a prosecutor and a licensed private investigator, where ... click headline for details
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