Sydney Writers' Festival

ANNA HAEBICH (INTERSTATE)
Anna Haebich is a scholar of international repute, known for her leadership in multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to historical research. Her multi-award-winning book Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 was the first national history of Australia’s Stolen Generations.

Anna’s career brings together university teaching and research, centre directorship, museum curatorship, visual arts practice, and work with indigenous communities. Her research interests include histories of indigenous peoples, migration, the body, the environment, the visual and performing arts, and representations of the past.

Anna is Professor specialising in interdisciplinary research at Griffith University and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Her most recent book is Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970.

appearing at...
85: Stories of Assimilation
252: The Assimilation Agenda

GIDEON HAIGH (INTERSTATE)
Gideon Haigh has written 19 books and edited six in 24 years as a journalist. His latest business title is Asbestos House. His latest cricket book is The Green and Golden Age.

appearing at...
182: The Monthly Third Birthday Celebration
229: Writing and Research
253: PEN Voices: The 3 Writers Project

SARAH HALL (INTERNATIONAL)
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974 where she now lives and works. She has published three novels Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2004) and, most recently, The Carhullan Army.

appearing at...
101: Sarah Hall in Conversation
291: The Future of Feminism
312: Sunday Afternoon Tea and Readings

PAUL HAM (LOCAL)
Paul Ham is the author of the highly acclaimed Kokoda and the Australian correspondent of the London Sunday Times. He was born and educated in Australia and lives in Sydney, having spent several years working in Britain as a journalist and publisher.

In November 2007 he released his second book, Vietnam which has been received favourably by both Vietnam veterans and critics alike. Vietnam is the definitive account of Australia’s involvement in the War – drawing on hundreds of unpublished sources as well as on interviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and Vietnamese people. Ham reconstructs the epic history of a campaign that disfigured a country and divided the world, nations, families and friends.

appearing at...
103: The Lessons of Vietnam
186: Paul Ham at Campbelltown Library
271: Paul Ham in Conversation

WENDY HARMER (LOCAL)
Wendy Harmer is the author of the successful children’s series, Pearlie. The series is published in 10 territories and an animation series is currently in production.

appearing at...
275: Creating a Hurly Burly World for Pearlie

JOHN HARRIS (LOCAL)
John Harris is a funeral director and contributor to Sweet Sorrow.

appearing at...
62: Dying Words

LAURA HARRIS (INTERSTATE)
Laura Harris is the Publishing Director of children's books for Penguin Australia. She has worked with such highly acclaimed authors as Morris Gleitzman, Melina Marchetta and Mem Fox.

appearing at...
342: Publishing Fiction for Children and Young Adults

J.S. HARRY (LOCAL)
J.S. Harry is one of Australia's most important poets, with a career spanning more than 30 years. She has published seven previous collections of poetry, including A Dandelion for Van Gogh, The Life on Water and the Life Beneath, Selected Poems, which won the NSW Premier's Award for Poetry, and Sun Shadow, Moon Shadow. Her new collection is Not Finding Wittgenstein.

J.S. Harry’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Giramondo Publishing.

appearing at...
261: Four on the Floor

VICKI HASTRICH (LOCAL)
Vicki Hastrich lives in Sydney. The Great Arch, her second novel, will be published in May. Vicki has had a long association with Varuna, having received a fellowship and a mentorship for her first novel, Swimming with the Jellyfish, and an Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship in 2005, to work on The Great Arch.

appearing at...
30: Writing Obsessions: New Australian Fiction
84: Tales of Obsession
225: Based on Truth

MICHAEL HAUGE (INTERNATIONAL)
Michael Hauge is a story consultant, author and lecturer who has coached some of the most successful screenwriters and filmmakers working in the industry today.

He has spent the past 20 years as an expert advisor on writing and story structure, consulting on projects for Warner Bros., Paramount, Disney, Columbia, New Line, Joel Silver Prods, CBS and Lifetime and on projects for Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron and Morgan Freeman.

He is on the Board of Directors of The American Screenwriters Association and the Advisory Board for Scriptwriter Magazine in London and his bestselling books Writing Screenplays That Sell and Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read have become definitive references for the film and television industry.

He has travelled extensively throughout the US and Europe giving his writing lectures and seminars to over 40,000 industry professionals and is currently visiting Australia for the first time to teach his Story Mastery Seminar over one day in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Michael Hauge’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Epiphany International Artists.
www.epiphany.com.au

appearing at...
3: Story Mastery Seminar with Michael Hauge
110: Screenplays that Sell

ASHLEY HAY (LOCAL)
Ashley Hay is the author of four books of non-fiction – The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, and two collaborations with the photographer Robyn Stacey, Herbarium and Museum – as well as essays, short stories and journalism.

A former literary editor of The Bulletin, her writing has also appeared in volumes including The Monthly, The Independent Monthly, Best Australian Essays and When Books Die. She is currently finishing her first novel, The Body in the Clouds.

appearing at...
161: Museum
229: Writing and Research
284: Honouring Nature

MO HAYDER (INTERNATIONAL)
Mo Hayder left school at 15. She worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She has an MA in film from The American University in Washington DC and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University, UK.

Her debut novel, Birdman, was an international bestseller. Her second novel, The Treatment, also a Sunday Times bestseller, won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read award. Her third novel Sunday Times bestseller Tokyo, won the Elle magazine crime fiction prize, the SNCF Prix Polar, and was nominated for three CWA dagger awards. Tokyo was also published as The Devil of Nanking in the US.

Pig Island, her fourth bestseller was nominated for a CWA dagger. Her fifth book, Ritual, the first of The Walking Man series, will be released in May 2008. Her work is published in 22 different countries.

Mo Hayder’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Random House.
www.mohayder.net

appearing at...
75: Mo Hayder Reader’s Lunch
112: Mo Hayder and Kathryn Fox at Ashfield Town Hall
208: Mo Hayder in Conversation

GARY HAYES (LOCAL)
Gary Hayes is the Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Media Production and Head of Virtual Worlds for TPF. He was BBC Senior Development Manager, New Media.

appearing at...
70: trope: Promoting New Writing in Second Life

SUSAN HAYES (LOCAL)
Susan Hayes is Manager Cultural Fund at Copyright Agency Limited.

appearing at...
345: Fact, Fiction or Fake?

ANNI HEINO (LOCAL)
Anni Heino is a Finnish-born writer and musicologist and editor of Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz.

appearing at...
145: Finding the Words to Speak (and Write) about Music

ANITA HEISS (LOCAL)
Anita Heiss is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central NSW and a writer, poet, activist, social commentator and academic. She is author of Dhuuluu-Yala: Publishing Aboriginal Literature, Not Meeting Mr Right and Who Am I?: The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937.

She won the 2004 NSW Premier's History Award (audio/visual) for Barani: the Aboriginal history of Sydney.

Anita has worked as the Communications Advisor for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Board of the Australia Council (2001-2003) and was the Deputy Director of Warawara Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. She is National Coordinator of AustLit's Black Words subset.
www.anitaheiss.com

appearing at...
67: Just Words: Australian Authors Writing for Justice
241: Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature
311: Gayle Kennedy in Conversation

PETER HELLER (INTERNATIONAL)
Peter Heller arrived in Melbourne in December 2005, on assignment for National Geographic, to join the crew of the Farley Mowat, an eco-pirate ship belonging to the radical environmental group, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as it sailed to Antarctica to hunt down and disrupt the Japanese whaling fleet.

On board, Heller found an uncompromising crew of eco-crusaders who very quickly found themselves at the centre of the international whaling war. The result of this experience was Heller’s most recent book The Whale Warriors, a timely and expertly-written account of the anarchic battle between the whalers and a committed crew’s clear-eyed willingness to die to save a whale.

An award-winning adventure writer and author of three books of literary non-fiction, Heller is also a longtime contributor to NPR, a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and National Geographic Adventure. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
www.peterhellerbooks.com

appearing at...
166: Following the Big Issues
203: The Whale Warriors: Peter Heller in Conversation
222: In Search of a Story

RACHEL HENNESSY (INTERSTATE)
Rachel Hennessy was born in Canberra in 1973. She has lived and worked in Newcastle, Brisbane, Sydney, London and Adelaide.

Her first novel The Quakers won the Adelaide Festival Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. The manuscript was also long-listed for the 2005 Australian/Vogel Award, short-listed for the Varuna Writers’ Centre Manuscript Development program and won the ArtsSA prize for Creative Writing.

Her short stories have been published in the anthologies Emerge: New Australian Writing, On Edge (which she also co-edited), The Body, Spiny Babbler and in the new writing magazines staples and Wet Ink.

Her short film Not Waving, Drowning was screened at the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and toured the international Gay and Lesbian film festival circuit. She has been a guest speaker in the Department of English at the University of Adelaide and is currently writing her second novel through their PhD program.

appearing at...
225: Based on Truth
207: But I Don’t Like You

BARRY HILL (INTERSTATE)
Barry Hill is an acclaimed writer in several genres, having won Premier's Awards for poetry, non-fiction, and the essay.

His short stories have been widely anthologised; some have been translated into Japanese and Chinese. For 15 years he was radio critic for The Age, and he has written many works for radio.

His magnum opus is the multi-award winning, Broken Song, about T.G.H Strehlow’s poetics. His Overland lecture, 'The Mood We’re In, circa Australia Day, 2004', won a Victorian Premier’s Award for Best Essay. His first libretto, Love Strong as Death, music by Andrew Schultz, was performed in The Studio, at Sydney Opera House in 2004. Since 2003 his poems have appeared in Best Australian Poems. His most recent books of poetry include The War Sonnets, Necessity: Poems 1996-2000, and As We Draw Ourselves.

He is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne and poetry editor of The Australian. For 30 years he has been writing full time and living by the sea in Queenscliff, Victoria. He is married to the singer/songwriter Rose Bygrave.

appearing at...
74: Launch: As We Draw Ourselves
99: Poetry International

ROBERT HILLMAN (INTERSTATE)
Robert Hillman writes fiction and biography. His collaboration with Najaf Mazari on The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif grew out of an abiding interest in the hardships and triumphs of refugees.

Robert Hillman’s participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Insight Publications.

appearing at...
209: The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

PETER HO DAVIES (INTERNATIONAL)
Peter Ho Davies was born in Coventry in 1966 to a Welsh father and Chinese mother. He was raised in England and spent his summers in Wales. He has a degree in physics and in English literature. He worked in publishing before he moved to the US where he gained an MA in creative writing at Boston University.

Ho Davies own first published collection of short stories was The Ugliest House in the World, which contains tales set in Malaysia, South Africa and Patagonia. His second collection, Equal Love, was published in 2000, and named the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, as well as being shortlisted for both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) and the Asian American Literary Award.

In 2003, he was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. His eagerly awaited first novel, The Welsh Girl, set in a Welsh village during the Second World War, was listed for the MAN Booker Prize and also as one of the best fiction books of 2007 by the Boston Globe.

Peter Ho Davies has taught at the University of Oregon and at Emory University and is currently the director of the MFA Programme in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan.

appearing at...
69: Peter Ho Davies in Conversation
94: Love and War
312: Sunday Afternoon Tea and Readings

ELIZABETH HODGSON (LOCAL)
Elizabeth Hodgson is a Wiradjuri woman, born in Wellington, New South Wales. She spent her childhood in a home for fair-skinned Aboriginal children in a Sydney suburb.

Elizabeth Hodgson has been a guest of the Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia, and this year she will be a featured writer at the Australian Poetry Centre’s Regional Poetry Festival. In 2007, she won the David Uniapon Award, and her collection of poetry Skin Painting is forthcoming.

appearing at...
111: Celebrating the Voice 8 – Wollongong
331: Celebrating the Voice 8 – Bermagui
332: Celebrating the Voice 8 – Moruya
333: Celebrating the Voice 8 – Nowra

LUCINDA HOLDFORTH (LOCAL)
Lucinda Holdforth lives in Sydney with her husband. Her first book, True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris, was published in Australia in 2004 and North America in 2005. Her latest book is Why Manners Matter: The Case for Civilised Behaviour in a Barbarous World.

appearing at...
144: Why Manners Matter
163: Modern Citizenship
257: The Lost Art of Oratory

TRACEY HOLMES (LOCAL)
Tracey Holmes is a published author and one of Australia’s most experienced and respected broadcasters with more than 20 years working experience in Australia, Hong Kong and Beijing. Her passion is sport – particularly the Olympics. She has covered six Olympic Games since Barcelona 1992. Her expertise extends way beyond the sports field and into the realms of politics and humanity. In the lead up to the successful Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Tracey was international media spokesperson for SOCOG, Sydney’s Organising Committee.

appearing at...
141: Behind the Scenes