Sydney Writers' Festival

BRUCE ELDER (LOCAL)
Bruce Elder has been involved in writing over 60 books and he has worked as a print and radio journalist in both London and Sydney.

He is an award-winning journalist (Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing 1996) who is currently a full-time employee of The Sydney Morning Herald as well as a weekly guest on the ABC's Tony Delroy Nightlife program which is broadcast on over 150 stations around Australia.

His books include Blood on the Wattle which, in 2000, was nominated as one of the 10 most influential works of non-fiction published in Australia in the twentieth century. He is the Australian editor of Trivial Pursuit and the creator of the 2 million word Walkabout travel site (www.walkabout.com.au) which is also part of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age's website.
www.walkabout.com.au

also appearing at...
273: Colonial Ambition: A Walking Tour of Old Sydney’s Political Sites
303: An Unimagined Journey with Imran Ahmad

BARRY DIVOLA (LOCAL)
Barry Divola is the author of Fanclub, Searching For Kingly Critter, M Is For Metal (with Paul McNeil) and The Secret Life Of Backpackers. Barry has been receiving hate mail from hardline music fans since 1992, when he became the first music critic at Who magazine, a position he still holds. He is also a senior writer for Rolling Stone, a columnist and writer for the(sydney)magazine, and a freelance contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life and Madison in Australia, and Entertainment Weekly in the US. Barry won the Banjo Paterson Award for short fiction for three years in a row, for his stories “Nipple” (2004), “Cicada Boy” (2005) and “Nixon” (2006). He’s not sure what happened in 2007, but is demanding a recount. His next book (co-written with illustrator Paul McNeil) is out later this year - it’s the sequel to M Is For Metal, and is called Never Mind Your P’s And Q’s: Here’s The Punk Alphabet.

also appearing at...
286: Enjoy the Trip