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Phillip Gwynne, Katherine Johnson and Mark Tredinnick discuss landscape and the determining role of place in their writing.



Panel  |  Fiction, Nonfiction
Participants
Phillip Gwynne, Katherine Johnson, Mark Tredinnick, Gregg Borschmann (facilitator)

When
Monday, May 18 2009
16:30 - 17:30

Where
Carrington Hotel, Katoomba
15-47 Katoomba Street
Katoomba
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Cost
 varuna.com.au for ticket prices and booking details

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PHILLIP GWYNNE (LOCAL)
PHILLIP GWYNNE is the author of multi-award winning Deadly Unna, which he adapted for the screen in the film Australian Rules. His latest book, The Build Up, an adult crime novel, has been commissioned by the SBS for a 13-episode TV series.

also appearing at...
63: Catherine Jinks at Penrith Library


KATHERINE JOHNSON (LOCAL)Johnson, Katherine
KATHERINE JOHNSON trained in marine science and journalism. Pescador's Wake, which won a HarperCollins/Varuna Award for Manuscript Development, is her first novel.


GREGG BORSCHMANN (LOCAL)
GREGG BORSCHMANN is a writer, radio producer and oral historian. He is the producer of ABC Radio National Breakfast, producer/presenter of the ABC Songlines Conversations and director of Talking Country: Australian Stories of People & Place.


MARK TREDINNICK (LOCAL)
MARK TREDINNICK is a poet, essayist and writing teacher. He lives and writes in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where he runs the Cowshed Classes. Much of Mark’s writing engages with landscape and literature - with the syntax of places and the ecology of paragraphs. Mark’s awards include the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Blake Poetry Prize, the Calibre Essay Prize and the Wildcare Nature Writing Prize. His seven books include The Land’s Wild Music, The Little Red Writing Book, The Little Green Grammar Book, The Road South and The Blue Plateau.
 marktredinnick.com.au

also appearing at...
3: Poets Paint Words II Exhibition
73: The Art of Fact: Workshop with Mark Tredinnick
101: The Art of Fact: Workshop with Mark Tredinnick
196: Poets Paint Words II - Poets Read I
337: Much Ado About Grammar