Sunil Badami (Australian)
Sunil Badami's work has been anthologised in Australia and overseas, including Best Australian Stories 2007, Scribe New Australian Stories, Growing Up Asian in Australia and Goldfish: The Best Writing of the Last Five Years. He has written for publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, The Australian, The Australian Literary Review, The Cultural Studies Review, Meanjin and Southerly.
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33: City of the Imagination
205: Changing Forms
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Kathy Bail (Australian)
Kathy Bail is the CEO of UNSW Press. She is a former editor of the ‘Australian Financial Review Magazine’, ‘The Bulletin’, ‘HQ’ and ‘Rolling Stone’. She has worked on a range of publications as a writer and commissioning editor, including ‘The Australian’ and ‘The Independent Monthly’. Her collection of essays ‘DIY Feminism’ was published in 1996. From 2003 to 2006, she was a director of Melbourne University Publishing.
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47: Nice Work
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Emilie Zoey Baker (Australian)
Emilie Zoey Baker is a multi award-winning poet and slam champion who, in 2009, toured workshops and performances throughout Canada, and in New York and Chicago. She is the spoken word editor for ‘Cordite’ and the Victorian coordinator for the National Australian Poetry Slam. She is the author of, ‘She Wore The Sky On Her Shoulders’. Recently she performed in the sold out world premiere of ‘Elemental’, poetry at the Planetarium in the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival.
 myspace.com/emiliezoeybaker
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179: Hip Hop Versus Spoken-Word: A Battle of Theories
194: Spoken Four
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Tristan Bancks (Australian)
Tristan Bancks tells stories for the page and screen. He has written several books for kids and teens, including the explosive Mac Slater, Coolhunter series and his illustrated series, Nitboy, about everybody's favourite minibeasts. Nitboy is currently being developed for television. Tristan's young adult novel, ‘it's yr life’ was co-written with actress/author, Tempany Deckert. Tristan's drive is to tell inspiring, fast-moving stories for young people.
tristanbancks.com
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SR3: Lift Off! with Tristan Bancks
SR19: An Evening with Judy Nunn
75: Primary School Days - Free at Town Hall
200: Writing Children’s Books in the Digital Age
222: Behind the Scenes of Children’s Publishing
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Margaret Barbalet (Australian)
Margaret Barbalet, a former diplomat, was most recently posted in the United Arab Emirates. She is the author of eight books.
margaretbarbalet.com
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42: Tales of Adversity and Survival
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Tony Barrell (Australian)
Tony Barrell has been making features and documentaries for ABC radio and television for more than 20 years. He began his career with Double Jay, has been a producer for ‘Background Briefing’ and ‘Foreign Correspondent’ and a reporter with ‘Four Corners’. He has made radio documentaries in and about the USA, Europe, and several Asian countries, including four series in collaboration with the BBC World Service. His essay ‘How many miles’ appears in ‘Griffith REVIEW 27: Food Chain’.
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44: Food Chain
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Paul Barry (Australian)
Paul Barry is a seasoned print and broadcast journalist. He is best known in the book world as the author of the best-selling unauthorised biographies of Alan Bond and Kerry Packer. Paul’s work has won many awards, including two Walkleys. He is a former host of ABC TV’s ‘Media Watch’ and Channel 7’s ‘Witness’ and ‘The Times’. He has reported for Channel Nine’s ‘60 Minutes’ and presented ‘Breakfast’ on ABC Radio National. His most recent book is ‘Who Wants to be a Billionaire: The James Packer Story’.
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201: Behind the Dynasty
246: The Businessman, the Politician and the Journalist
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Lenny Bartulin (Australian)
Lenny Bartulin is the author of ‘A Deadly Business: A Jack Susko mystery’. His poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including ‘HEAT’, ‘Meanjin’ and ‘New Australian Stories’. His latest novel is ‘The Black Russian: A Jack Susko mystery’.
lennybartulin.blogspot.com
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26: Not Everyone’s a Cop
115: Crime Scene
224: Crime Readings
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Paban Das Baul (International)
Paban Das Baul has been a singer since childhood. Born in 1961 in Murshidabad, he incarnates the synergy of his place of origin: between Tantric, Vaishnava, Sufi and Buddhist cultures which he draws upon liberally to embellish his art and music. Paban plays and makes with his own hands many musical instruments, the dubki - a sort of tambourine, the khamak - a plucking drum, the dotara - a 5 stringed lute and various percussion instruments. In 1990, Paban created Antar Jantar, a cooperative society of destitute artisans specialising in making folk musical instruments.
myspace.com/pabandasbaul
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22: Nine Lives: An Evening of South Asian Devotional Music and Spiritual Transformation
SR30: The Honey Gatherers: Mimlu Sen and Paban Das Baul
186: The Honey Gatherers: Mimlu Sen and Paban Das Baul
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Bauls of Bengal (International)
The Bauls of Bengal are a group of itinerant mystic minstrels whose beliefs draw on Vaishnavite Hindu and Sufi Muslim thought.
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22: Nine Lives: An Evening of South Asian Devotional Music and Spiritual Transformation
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Caroline Baum (Australian)
Caroline Baum is a respected journalist and broadcaster. The founding editor of ‘Good Reading’, she has appeared on the ABC and Foxtel and co-produced a TV documentary on crime writer Arthur Upfield. She is a regular contributor to national magazines and newspapers.
carolinebaum.com.au
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36: Lionel Shriver Speaks to Caroline Baum
66: Judges and Winners
137: An Evening with Colm Tóibín
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Larissa Behrendt (Australian)
Larissa Behrendt is a barrister, professor of law and director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a member of the Eualeyai/Kamilaroi nations of north-west New South Wales and the author of several books on Indigenous legal issues. Her latest book, ‘Legacy’, is a compelling novel about fathers and daughters and how the past is always present. Larissa was named as 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year.
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99: Family Fictions
130: PEN Gives Voice Hosted by John Ralston Saul
180: Tiddas Talk Writing
204: Reading Muster 8
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Tegan Bennett Daylight (Australian)
Tegan Bennett Daylight is the author of several books for teenagers and children, as well as the acclaimed novels ‘Safety’, ‘What Falls Away’ and ‘Bombora’. Tegan has been a judge of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and for many years has taught fiction writing at the University of Technology Sydney. She is at work on her fourth novel.
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SR14: The Short Story
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Judith Beveridge (Australian)
Judith Beveridge is one of Australia’s most highly regarded poets, the author of three award-winning books of poetry. Her poems are widely studied in schools and universities. She teaches creative writing at the University of Sydney, and is the poetry editor of ‘Meanjin’. In 2005 she was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature. ‘Storm and Honey’ is her latest collection.
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76: Poetry on the Harbour
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Craig Billingham (Australian)
Craig Billingham emigrated from England at age 14. He studied Philosophy at Macquarie University before living overseas, first in Kobe, then Brussels, London and Frankfurt. Since returning to Australia in 2003 he has completed an MA at the University of Sydney. His first collection of poems, ‘Storytelling’, was published in 2007. His work has been featured on ABC Radio National’s Poetica series, A Pod of Poets, and appeared in ‘HEAT’, ‘Meanjin’, ‘Blue Dog’, ‘Going Down Swinging’ and ‘Famous Reporter’. He lives in Katoomba.
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218: The Sydney Readings: New Voices
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Peter Bishop (Australian)
Peter Bishop has worked as a pianist and feature writer for the ABC. He is creative director of Varuna The Writers’ House and has been working intensively with writers for over 17 years.
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SR9: Anna Goldsworthy: Piano Lessons
SR10: The Ghost at the Wedding
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Judith Bishop (Australian)
Judith Bishop is a poet, amateur translator and professional linguist. Her first poetry collection, ‘Event’, won the Anne Elder award and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Awards C.J. Dennis Prize, the Queensland Premier’s Awards Judith Wright Calanthe Award and the ASAL Mary Gilmore Prize. Her poems have appeared in three volumes of ‘The Best Australian Poems’ and ’The Best Australian Poetry’. Her translations from French (Philippe Jaccottet, Gérard Macé) have been published in journals in Australia and overseas. She lives in Sydney with her husband and young daughter.
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131: Poems to Share: A Special Red Room Event
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Ernie Blackmore (Australian)
Ernie Blackmore is a playwright, author and lecturer at the Woolyungah Indigenous Centre, University of Wollongong. His first book, ‘Speakin Out Blak’, was released in 2008.
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SR36: Celebrating the Voice: Indigenous Writers Night
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Kim Cheng Boey (Australian)
Kim Cheng Boey was born in Singapore and migrated to Australia in 1997. He has published four award-winning collections of poetry, and teaches at the University of Newcastle. His latest book is ‘Between Stations’.
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54: Changing Places
76: Poetry on the Harbour
165: Three Australias
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Alison Booth (Australian)
Alison Booth was born in Victoria, grew up in Sydney, and has a PhD from the London School of Economics. After over two decades living and working in the UK, she returned to Australia in 2002, and is now a professor of economics at the Australian National University. She has published short stories and ‘Stillwater Creek’, which is her first novel. She is currently completing the sequel. She is married with two daughters.
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28: Reading Muster 1
54: Changing Places
99: Family Fictions
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Angela Bowne (Australian)
Angela Bowne SC is a former President of Sydney PEN and was appointed a life member in 2007. She is a Sydney Senior Counsel practising in intellectual property and is a former journalist, editor and publisher.
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59: What PEN Means to Me: Stories from the Frontline
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Hugo Bowne Anderson (Australian)
Hugo Bowne-Anderson is a mathematician and freelance writer, currently completing his PhD in Pure Maths at UNSW. He writes occasional reviews and essays for publications such as ‘HEAT’, ‘Australian Book Review’ and ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’, several of which have concerned the likes of Roberto Bolaño.
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236: Reading Roberto Bolaño
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James Bradley (Australian)
James Bradley is the award-winning author of three novels, ‘Wrack’, ‘The Deep Field’ and ‘The Resurrectionist’, and a book of poetry, ‘Paper Nautilus’. His novels have been widely translated and won or been shortlisted for a number of major national and international awards. He is currently editing ‘The Penguin Book of the Ocean’. His new novel, ‘Black Friday’, will be published in 2011.
cityoftongues.com
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100: Let the Games Begin: The iPad, the Kindle and the iPhone
187: Launch: Popeye Never Told You by Rodney Hall
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Margaret Bradstock (Australian)
Margaret Bradstock has published five books of poetry. The most recent are ‘The Pomelo Tree’ (which won the Wesley Michel Wright Prize), ‘Coast’ and ‘How Like the Past’. Other prizes include the Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson awards. In 2003 she was Asialink writer-in-residence at Peking University. Margaret is co-editor of ‘Five Bells’.
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128: Voices from Underground
239: DiVerse at the SH Ervin: A Poetic Response
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Deborah Brash (Australian)
Deborah Brash has worked in the publishing industry for 28 years. Within that time she has worked for a variety of leading publishers predominantly designing, project managing and packaging as Brash Design. Since 2003 she has been the art director at Penguin and was the recipient of the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Design Hall of Fame Award in 2007.
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30: Book Design Now and Forever: Designing for Different Genres
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Bernadette Brennan (Australian)
Bernadette Brennan is a Senior Lecturer in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. Her book 'Brian Castro's Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language' was published by Cambria Press in 2008. Her edited publications include 'Just Words?: Australian Authors Writing for Justice' (UQP 2008) and 'Ethical Investigations: Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics' (Vagabond Press 2008).
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158: Brian Castro
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Katharine Brisbane (Australian)
Katharine Brisbane AM, is Chair of Currency House, an advocate for the performing arts, and founder-director of the publishers Currency Press. She has written widely on Australian theatre, holds two Hon. PhDs and in 2009 received the NSW Premier’s Special Award for services to literature.
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34: Celebrating the Australian Accent
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David Brooks (Australian)
‘The Umbrella Club’ is David Brooks’ third novel. He has also published collections of poetry, short fiction and essays. His previous novel, ‘The Fern Tattoo’, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, and ‘The Balcony’, his recent collection of poetry, for the NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Award. He teaches Australian literature at the University of Sydney, lives in the Blue Mountains, and spends a portion of each year in a village in Slovenia. He is co-editor of the journal ‘Southerly’. His work has been widely anthologised, and translated into several languages.
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W7: The Mystery of the Line-Break ... with David Brooks
39: Location, Location, Location
W26: Life Sentence with David Brooks
199: Late Nights at Number One
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Paul Brown (Australian)
Paul Brown is convenor of the environmental humanities program at UNSW. He is an environmentalist, playwright and filmmaker; author of ‘Aftershocks’ and ‘Half a Life: Maralinga’, and co-author ‘Art and Wellbeing’. Once Greenpeace Australia’s Campaign Manager, he currently writes on toxic wastes, nuclear issues and climate change, with teaching and research in community cultural development contexts.
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146: Politics, Arts and Ecology: Where to Next for the Environment?
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Carolyne Bruyn (Australian)
Carolyne Bruyn is a writer, professional archivist and freelance editor. She is the coordinator of the Sydney WEA Writers Workshop. Carolyne owns and runs EveryWrite, an Internet-based manuscript appraisal and editing business.
everywrite.com.au
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239: DiVerse at the SH Ervin: A Poetic Response
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John Muk Muk Burke (Australian)
John Muk Muk Burke was born in Narrandera, NSW of a Wiradjuri mother and an Irish father. He has taught in primary schools and been a specialist art teacher and music advisor for the Northern Territory Department of Education. He was a lecturer in history and English literature at the Centre for Aboriginal and Islander Studies at the Northern Territory University from 1992 to 2001. His fiction ‘Bridge of Triangles’ won the 1993 Unaipon Award and his poetry volume ‘Night Song and Other Poems’ won the national Kate Challis RAKA Award in 2000. He served as a Unaipon judge 1998-2001.
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SR36: Celebrating the Voice: Indigenous Writers Night
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Joanne Burns (Australian)
Joanne Burns’ poetry includes numerous prose poems, short fictions and monologues. Her first book of poetry ‘Snatch’ was published in London in 1972. Since then she has published over a dozen other collections including ‘on a clear day’, ‘aerial photography’, ‘footnotes of a hammock’ and, in 2007, ‘an illustrated history of dairies’. Joanne has been performing her work since the 1970s. She has been a teacher of English and creative writing. Her latest collection is ‘amphora’.
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131: Poems to Share: A Special Red Room Event
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Jennifer Byrne (Australian)
Jennifer Byrne started as a cadet journalist with ‘The Age’ newspaper in Melbourne, going on to become a feature and editorial writer, and co-editor of the ‘Monthly Review’. In the early eighties Jennifer worked on Channel Nine’s ‘Sunday’, and then ‘60 Minutes’, She has presented ‘Foreign Correspondent’ on ABC TV, and she narrated the ABC mockumentary comedy series ‘We Can Be Heroes’. Jennifer was also publishing director at Reed Books. She has continued writing feature and book reviews, and since 2006 has hosted the ABC’s ‘First Tuesday Book Club’.
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70: The Imperial Panda Presents: Erotic Fan Fiction
94: First Tuesday Book Club
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