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| Carolyn
Affleck |
| Carolyn
Affleck is a former newspaper journalist who has
long been very keen to test her creativity. She
is currently a creative writing student and poetry
is her favourite genre. |
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| Anastasia
Anderson |
| Anastasia
Anderson is of Greek and Anglo-Australian parentage
and grew up in Central Western Queensland. She graduated
from the University of Queensland with 1st Class
Honours in English and is now completing a Master
of Arts (Creative Writing) at QUT. |
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| Carole
Andrew |
| Carole
Andrew is a student in Creative Writing at QUT.
She is constantly starting novels and getting side-tracked
by new ideas. She dreams of one day writing a bestseller
and never having to work 9-5 again. |
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| David
Andrews |
| David
Andrews has been waiting some 40 years to write
a short story. A career in radio and PR left him
little time for fiction and it wasn't until he retired
at 66 to Queensland three years ago that he had
time to tackle the short story format after working
life in Australia, Britain, Fiji and New Zealand.
He now lives on the Sunshine Coast. |
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| Talim
Arab |
| Talim
Arab was born and grew up in London, but migrated
to Australia in 1996. He is currently enrolled in
a Bachelor of Arts/Education at the University of
Queensland, inspired never to become a teacher.
When Talim grows up he hopes to set up his own constellation
of stars. |
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Ee Khem |
| Ee
Khem, 30, an advertising copywriter at J. Walter
Thompson Specialised Communications, recently reorganised
her life to embrace motherhood. When not busy enjoying
the company of baby son Kenith and husband Daniel,
she loves tinkering with the object of her technogadget
lust, a Palm IIIxe. Oh, and collecting ideas for
her next writing project(s). |
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| Chris
Baikie |
Chris
Baikie is a Canadian/Australian freelance writer
who currently resides in Melbourne where he contributes
to outdoor adventure-based magazines as well as
writing fiction. |
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| Diarmid
W. Bartlett |
| Diarmid
was born in 1975 in a sleepy NSW town whose name
shall remain secret so as to protect the innocent.
After travelling Australia extensively Diarmid settled
in Queensland. Here he has variously studied Law,
worked for a comic shop, owned and operated a bookshop,
and studied business, theology, philiosophy, biblical
languages, et al. In 2000 he finds himself in the
first group about to graduate from QUT's Creative
Writing Production degree, with an eye to further
study. Diarmid lectures in theology and ethics @
Australian Catholic University, where he is also
preparing a thesis in hermeneutics. |
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| Toni
Bartlett |
| Toni
Bartlett is a first year student of Creative Writing
at the Queensland University of Technology and a
writer/full member of the Australasian Performing
Right Association. She has performed at various
Brisbane venues with her band, Defacto Caravan Situation,
worked for Channel 31 in Sydney and published work
in 'Scribble' and 'Utopia'. |
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| Mandy
Beaumont |
Mandy
Beaumont is a 26 year old Brisbane Poet. This
year, Mandy won the WestEnder Poetry Prize and
was the first resident poet for vibewire.net as
part of the Australia Councils’ “write
in you face” program. Mandy was the first
poet to have her poetry displayed on a Telephone
signal Box as part of the Brisbane City Council/Hands
on Art "Artforce Awards" and has also
had her work published in many magazines, newspapers
and Youth Arts Queensland publications. Mandy
is a current recipient of the 2003 Youth Arts
Queensland Mentoring Program for her poetry and
she read at the opening night of the 2003 National
Poetry Week as part of the “sin invitational
mic”. |
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| Tahnya
Bella |
| Tahnya
Bella is coming to the end of her first year in
a Bachelor of Creative Industries at QUT. Her passions
are in the fields of biographical and memoir writing
though she has been known to obsess over sand sculpting. |
| t.bella@student.qut.edu.au |
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| Julie
Bilbrough |
| Julie
Bilbrough is a creative writer who has had several
stories and poems published in small local print
magazines and newspapers. She has completed a Diploma
of Professional Writing and Editing and is in her
second year of a Bachelor of Arts degree (University
of Ballarat). |
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| Alex
Black |
| Alex
Black is a third year creative writing student at
QUT who is sub-majoring in Communication Design.
Other works consist of short stories, screenplays
and interactive narratives. |
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| Viki
Blaik |
| Viki
Blaik is a Brisbane based writer, currently undertaking
enrolled in QUT's Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing.
She writes short fiction, young adults fiction and
book reviews. |
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| Anna
Bligh |
| The
Hon. Anna Bligh is the Minister for Families, Youth
and Community Care and the Minister for Disability
Services in the Queensland State Government. |
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| Paul
Bodington |
| Paul
worked for seven years building naval frigates in
Williamstown, seven years as a carer for people
with intellectual disability, seven years in commercial
radio as a breakfast announcer, and has just started
with ABC Local Radio as a program maker. Paul would
like to spend seven years writing. |
| p.bodington@student.qut.edu.au |
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| Susan
Bonaci |
| Susan
Bonaci is currently studying Creative Writing at
the Queensland University of Technology. |
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| Sue
Bond |
| Sue
Bond has written reviews for the Courier Mail,
Asian Review of Books, Journal of Australian
Studies Review of Books and Metapsychology
Online Review. Imago, Mangrove, Hecate
and the Journal of Australian Studies have
published her short stories, and she has completed
the Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the University
of Queensland. |
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| Janice
Bostok |
| Janice
M. Bostok is an internationally published Japanese
forms poet who also writes free verse and short
stories. She has had success in many of the literary
magazines in Australia and New Zealand. |
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| N.A.
Bourke |
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a bourke recently made a successful PhD presentation
at Griffith University and is currently teaching
in the creative writing program at the Queensland
University of Technology. In 2000, Nike won the
Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Emerging
Queensland Author for her novel The Bone Flute
which was released by UQP in 2001. |
| n.bourke@qut.edu.au |
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| Rhianna
Boyle |
| Rhianna
Boyle has had a rather ordinary life of no particular
interest. She toyed with the idea of fabricating
something for her bio but decided to leave it at
this instead. She has won the State Library of Queensland's
2000 Young Writers Award with her story Motorbike
Man. |
| rl.boyle@student.qut.edu.au |
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| Donna
Lee Brien |
| Donna
Lee Brien, Supervising Editor, is a Lecturer in
Creative Writing at QUT. Donna’s literary interests
are in writing and teaching creative nonfiction,
especially fictionalised biography and other lifewriting,
and contemporary fiction. Donna has published in
the areas of creative nonfiction, biography, history,
art history, and fiction, and is currently writing
a fictionalised biography of Mary Dean, wife of
infamous 19th century poisoner, George Dean. |
| d.brien@qut.edu.au |
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| Christina
Brown |
| Christina
Brown migrated to Australia from Annapolis, USA
in 1999 with her husky, Lasher, and Brisbane-born
husband. She is currently studying Creative Writing
at QUT with specific interest in food writing, fictionalised
biography and children's literature. |
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| Axel
Bruns |
| Dr
Axel Bruns, Production Editor and Webmaster, is
a defector from the University of Queensland, where
he completed a Ph.D. about a new genre of Websites.
He teaches at QUT and UQ, works as a Web designer,
and is supervising production manager of M/C
- Media and Culture, where he has also published
a number of articles, and Web developer for EMIT,
QUT's streaming media station. A native of Germany,
he has made warm and sunny Brisbane his home, but
took some inspiration for dotlit's
dark and urban look from the cold and grey winters
he endured in his youth. |
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| Patrick
Buckridge |
| Patrick
Buckridge has a doctorate in Renaissance literature
from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches
Australian and other literatures in the School of
Humanities, Griffith University. |
| P.Buckridge@hum.gu.edu.au |
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| Ethel
Webb Bundell |
| Ethel
Webb Bundell is a widely published and prize-winning
writer of novels, short fiction, poetry and articles.
Her work has appeared in journals, magazines, newspapers,
anthologies and on ABC and BBC radio. She has published
four novels, two collections of poetry and one of
short fiction. |
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| Cheryl
Burket |
| Cheryl
Burket is a writer living in San Francisco. She
is currently writing a novel using non-conventional
narrative about a kidnapping in SoCal in 1976 perpetrated
by a person dressed as Elvis Presley. Her book of
prose poetry, Passing Through 90 Degrees,
was published in 2000 by San Francisco State University. |
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| Diane
Caney |
| Diane
Caney's creative writing traverses the boundaries
of poetry, theory and story-telling. After completing
her doctorate (on reading intertextually across
textual media) in 1997 she became intrigued by html
as a textual medium. In 1999 she was awarded an
Australia Council Grant to explore collaboration,
writing and electronic art with Robin Petterd. Diane's
works can be accessed at: http://overthere.com.au. |
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| Barbara
Caniato |
| Barbara
Caniato writes poems and prose. Her poems in dotlit
3.2 were first read publicly in Brisbane
in June 2002. |
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| Dana
Carsley |
| Dana
Carsley is currently studying for her Master of
Arts (Research) within the School of Film and Television
and aims to write a feature-length screenplay for
her major project. She recently won an AWGIE at
this year’s Australian Writers Guild awards presentation
for her short film script, ‘Rocket in the Pocket’,
produced in her final semester of studies for her
BA (Film and Television Production) at QUT last
year. ‘The Final Thoughts of a Dying Prawn’ is her
first literary interlude with seafood. |
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| Aaron
Catling |
| Aaron
Catling is a final year film and television production
student in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT.
He won a scholarship for film students funded by
MIFF and QUT to attend the 2003 Melbourne International
Film Festival. While there he was chosen by the
Festival to make a documentary about meeting the
great Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami. |
| a.catling@student.qut.edu.au |
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| Deborah
Chapman |
| Deborah
Chapman is a student in Creative Writing at QUT
who runs a deli at Eumundi Markets on the Sunshine
Coast. She would eventually like to be a full time
author writing cookbooks and food and travel articles,
enabling her to travel to exotic locations to research
the ideas she has for her novels. |
| MikeChapman@austarnet.com.au |
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| Felix
Cheong |
| Felix
Cheong was the recipient of Singapore's National
Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature
Award in 2000. His two books of poetry are Temptation
and Other Poems (1998) and I Watch the Stars
Go Out (1999). Felix completed his Master of
Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University
of Queensland in June 2002. |
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| Ian
Cho |
| Ian
Cho enjoys writing feature articles, short stories,
New Year's resolutions and to-do lists. |
| ian_cho@hotmail.com |
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| Peter
Christiansen |
| Peter
Christiansen is a Melbourne-based historian. His
latest publication on bohemians, detailing the turbulent
career of Professor Marshall Hall was published
as 'I Have Never Worn Sunglasses' in Heat
3, new series, 2002. |
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| Kerri
Christopher |
Kerri
Christopher has recently returned to Brisbane
after seven years in the UK where she worked for
global drinks giant, Diageo, based in London.
In that time she held a number of internal communication
positions, her most recent as communications manager
for Guinness manufacturing sites in the UK, Ireland,
and Europe. |
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| Suzanna
Clarke |
| Suzanna
Clarke is a Masters student in Creative Writing
at QUT, and is writing a biography of Isadora Duncan.
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| Dallas
Cluff |
| Dallas
Cluff lives in Brisbane, where he is completing
his final year in his Creative Writing degree. |
| dallascluff@yahoo.com |
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| Ryan
Collins |
| Ryan
Collins is in his final semester of QUT's Creative
Writing major. He admires the exploits of legendary
figures such as Wyatt Earp, Elliot Ness and Robin
Hood but doesn't think much of Kevin Costner. Although
he's sure he's an all right bloke once you get to
know him. |
| r2.collins@student.qut.edu.au |
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| Annie
Condon |
| Annie
Condon is a student in the Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology Professional Writing and Editing
Course. Her interests are predominantly short
story and poetry. Every short story she writes
includes a cameo appearance by a cat, however
she fears this would severely limit her poetry. |
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| Peter
Conway |
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was born in Brisbane a long time ago and at a
tender age followed parental advice and entered
the electrical trade, using this as an excuse
to procrastinate about writing. I am currently
enrolled at QUT in the Graduate Certificate Course
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