Sydney Writers' Festival 2010

EMMA JONES (LOCAL)
EMMA JONES holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge. In 2005 she won the Newcastle Poetry Prize, Australia's largest prize for a single poem, and has been the recipient of an emerging writer's grant from the Australian Council for the Arts, and the Harper-Wood Studentship in English Poetry and Literature from St John's College, Cambridge. The Striped World is Emma’s debut collection of poetry.

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239: Stories from The Stolen Generation

ROBERT GRAY (LOCAL)
ROBERT GRAY is a recipient of many grants from the Australia Council, and he describes himself as "a creature of the Literature Board". Robert has published eight volumes of poetry, and his Selected Poems has been through six reprints after it was set as a high school text. A further revised edition of his poems will appear in 2010. His memoir, The Land I Came Through Last, concerns his eccentric relatives and some notable figures he has known. His poetry has been published in book form in China, Germany, Holland and the UK, he has read at literary festivals and universities, and has been a writer-in-residence on numerous occasions in Asia, Europe, the UK and North America. He has won major Australian literary awards.

also appearing at...
3: Poets Paint Words II Exhibition
76: Lived Lives
259: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read III

EMILY BALLOU (LOCAL)
EMILY BALLOU is a poet, screenwriter and one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists. In 1997 she was awarded the Judith Wright Prize for Poetry for her poem Enter. Her essays and reviews have been published in The Weekend Australian Magazine, Heat, Australian Book Review, The Australian Review and New Matilda. She has recently completed a collection of poetry - a verse portrait of Charles Darwin - for which she was awarded a Tyrone Guthrie Centre fellowship in Ireland through the Australia Council for the Arts.

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89: Darwin in Verse

SUSAN HAYES (LOCAL)
SUSAN HAYES is director of Literature at the Australia Council, having worked previously at Copyright Agency Limited where she managed CAL’s philanthropic Cultural Fund. She emigrated from the UK to Australia in 1981 and was originally employed to administer the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia and the literary journal Westerly. Subsequently she was appointed State Literature Officer for Western Australia. Susan is a Churchill Fellow and has an M.Phil. in Australian Studies. She has edited anthologies of Australian short fiction for UWA Press.

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189: Literary Journals

MARJORIE EVASCO (INTERNATIONAL)
MARJORIE EVASCO is a Filipina poet who writes in English and Cebuano-Visayan. Her works include Dreamweavers: Selected Poems 1976-1986, Ochre Tones: Poems in English and Cebuano, A Legacy of Light: 100 Years of Sun Life in the Philippines, Six Women Poets: Inter/Views (co-written with Edna Manlapaz), Kung Ibig Mo: Love Poetry by Women, A Life Shaped by Music: Andrea O. Veneracion and the Philippine Madrigal Singers and ANI: The Life and Art of Hermogena Borja Lungay, Boholano Painter. Marjorie was a founding member of Writers Involved in Creating Cultural Alternatives (WICCA) and Women in Literary Arts (WILA). She is also an associate fellow of the Philippine Literary Arts Council. Her work has received many national awards, and she has been published in Asia, Europe and North America.

Her participation is supported by the Philippine Consulate General, Sydney.

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343: Poetry in the Mother Tongue: Marjorie Evasco

DEVIN JOHNSTON (INTERNATIONAL)
DEVIN JOHNSTON is the author of three books of poetry, including Sources. He is currently a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Creaturely and Other Essays will be released in September 2009. Devin published a book of literary criticism, Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice in 2002. He co-directs Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University, Missouri.

also appearing at...
85: Birdsong and Poetry
141: Late Nights at Number One
151: The Sydney Poetry Reading II