Sydney Writers' Festival

LEIGH SALES (LOCAL)
Leigh Sales is the ABC's National Security Correspondent. From 2001 to 2005, she was Washington Correspondent, during which time she won a Walkley for her reporting of Guantanamo Bay, and received a second nomination for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Her first book Detainee 002: the Case of David Hicks won the prestigious 2007 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism.

Detainee 002 is an outstanding example of the power a reporter can bring to her craft when given the time and space to engage with a story in great depth. Sales’ forensic examination of the David Hicks case rests firmly on two of journalism’s oldest virtues; diligence and fairness.

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41: Lunch with Loretta Napoleoni and Leigh Sales
216: Foreign Correspondents

IMRE SALUSINSZKY (LOCAL)
Imre Salusinszky is a journalist with The Weekend Australian and chairs the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

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108: Writers as Readers

ALAN SAUNDERS (LOCAL)
Alan Saunders was born and educated in London. He studied philosophy at the University of Leicester, where he was also president of the students' union, and Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He came to Australia in 1981 to pursue research in the History of Ideas Unit at the Australian National University and was subsequently awarded a PhD. He has been a Frances Yates Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute of the University of London.

Having joined the Science Unit of ABC Radio National in 1987, Alan Saunders founded The Food Program, which was broadcast weekly until 1991 and then from 1992 to 1997. He is now presenter of By Design - a weekly programme about architecture, design, and food - and of The Philosopher’s Zone.

He has written about food and other topics for various publications. He is the author of A is for Apple and his first novel, Alanna, was published in 2002.

In 1992 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for critical writing and broadcasting. In 2006, he received a Special Media Award from the Australasian Association for Philosophy.

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57: What’s the Big Idea?
104: Dead Philosophers
198: John Gray in Conversation

MARGOT SAVILLE (LOCAL)
Margot Saville has worked at The Australian, ABC, the Nine Network and The Sydney Morning Herald. Her new book is The Battle for Bennelong.

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292: Women in Politics
322: The Battle for Bennelong

KATRINA SCHLUNKE
Katrina Schlunke is a Senior Lecturer in Writing and Cultural Studies, Research Coordinator for the UTS Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. With Professor Stephen Muecke she is currently undertaking the ARC-funded project Voyages of Myth: Captain Cook in the Popular Australian Imagination. She is the author of Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre, an examination of how history works in the context of violent conflict between Indigenous people and white settlers near Tenterfield in Northern NSW in 1844.

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94: Love and War

CRAIG SCHUFTAN (LOCAL)
Craig Schuftan is the author of The Culture Club – Rock and Roll, Modern Art and Other Stuff Your Parents Warned You About, based on his long-running Triple J radio segment of the same name. He also writes for j mag. He is currently working on his second book, a history of Romantic thought in rock music entitled Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone!

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233: Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone!
287: Aliens Among Us

JULIANNE SCHULTZ (LOCAL)
Julianne Schultz is the founding editor of Griffith REVIEW and a professor in the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University. She has written extensively about the media and is the author of Reviving the Fourth Estate: Democracy, accountability and the media, Steel City Blues, and the librettos Black River and Going into Shadows.

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62: Dying Words
82: Re-imagining Australia
92: Cities on the Edge
146: Women Going Bush
340: Stories from the Dustbin
180: What Lies Beneath
252: The Assimilation Agenda

CLAIRE SCOBIE (LOCAL)
Claire Scobie is an English-born journalist and author of Last Seen in Lhasa, winner of the Dolman Best First Travel Book Award 2007. This chronicles her seven journeys to Tibet. After working at The Saturday Telegraph Magazine, London, Claire won a national award as Best Young Woman Journalist of the Year in 1997. She writes for The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times Magazine and The Observer, UK and is a contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life and Qantas. Claire now lives in Sydney, teaches writing workshops and was a judge in the 2007 Australian Society of Travel Writers (ASTW) Travel Journalism Awards.

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22: Workshop: Secrets of Travel Writing with Claire Scobie
149: Chasing Bohemia and Finding Nino
239: Naldo Rei in Conversation
248: Brazil

THERESE SCOTT (LOCAL)
Therese Scott is the Reader Services Librarian at Ashfield Library.

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112: Mo Hayder and Kathryn Fox at Ashfield Town Hall

PETER SCULTHORPE (LOCAL)
Peter Sculthorpe was born in Launceston in 1929. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney, where he began teaching in 1963. He has also taught at various music institutions and universities both within and outside Australia, and he holds honorary doctorates from Tasmania, Melbourne, Sussex and Griffith.

An Officer of both the Order of Australia and the British Empire, in 1998 he was elected one of Australia’s Living National Treasures. In 2002, he was elected to Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Peter Sculthorpe has written works in most musical forms, and his output relates easily to the unique social climate and physical characteristics of Australia. His country’s geographical position has caused him to be influenced by much of the music of Asia, especially that of Japan and Indonesia. In recent years, the main influences upon him have been Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island music and culture.

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90: The Life of Peter Sculthorpe

LYNNE SEGAL (INTERNATIONAL)
Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Migrating from Australia to Britain in 1970, just when the women’s liberation movement kicked off, she made her name as a feminist activist, writer and scholar.

She has published widely across the spectrum of sexual politics, gender concerns and broader issues of social justice, most recently in support of Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives. Her books include New Sexual Agendas, Is the Future Female? and Why Feminism?: Gender, Psychology, Politics and her most recent, Making Trouble.

Lynne Segal’s participation at Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Serpent’s Tail.

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143: Lynne Segal in Conversation with Drusilla Modjeska
291: The Future of Feminism
327: Imagined Futures

MICHAEL SEXTON SC (LOCAL)
Michael Sexton SC is Solicitor General for New South Wales. He is the co-author of the Australian text on defamation law as well as the author of several books on Australian history and politics and a novel. He has reviewed books for various journals, including The Sydney Morning Herald for 30 years.

He was a member of the NSW Library Council from 1987 to 1991 and between 1996 and 1998 Chairman of the State Rail Authority and a member of the NSW Public Transport Authority. He is currently a member of the Council of the University of Technology Sydney.

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199: Wibke Bruhns in Conversation
271: Paul Ham in Conversation

PAUL SHARRAD (LOCAL)
Paul Sharrad is Associate Professor in English Literatures at the University of Wollongong where he specialises in postcolonial writing. He has edited literary journals, coordinated the Commonwealth Writers Prize and been a judge of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and publishes the occasional poem.

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111: Celebrating the Voice 8 – Wollongong

TREVOR SHEARSTON (LOCAL)
Trevor Shearston first went to Papua New Guinea in 1968, and worked and travelled there for seven years. He has returned many times since. He now lives in the Blue Mountains with his wife and son.

He is the author of six previous books, Tinder, A Straight Young Back, Concertinas, White Lies, Sticks That Kill and Something in the Blood. His latest novel Dead Birds, was published in 2007.

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10: The Authority to Tell a Story
178: Imagining History

CRAIG SHERBORNE (INTERSTATE)
Craig Sherborne began writing in his early teens for the companionship of the page, and out of a dreamy affection for artful language. After attending university for a time, he made his way to London, where he enrolled in a drama course and began writing short plays. In 1986 he drifted to Melbourne and then to the Wimmera region in Victoria where he wrote feature stories and reported on the magistrates’ court for a small-town newspaper.

Meanwhile, the ABC started producing his radio plays and awarded him a drama prize. This encouraged Sherborne to write a full-length play, The Ones Out of Town, which won the Wal Cherry Play of the year in 1989. In 1995 his poetry collection, Bullion, was a runner-up for the Anne Elder Award. His verse-drama, Look at Everything Twice for Me, was published in 1999.

Sherborne has held various jobs in journalism, including grains writer for Stock and Land, features reporter for The Sunday Magazine and senior writer with Melbourne’s The Herald Sun.

His poems and essays have appeared in most of Australia’s leading literary journals and anthologies, including Best Australian Essays and Best Australian Poems.

His memoir, Hoi Polloi, was published to critical acclaim in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Victorian and Queensland Premiers’ Literary Awards and selected for the Australia Council’s Books Alive program. His latest poetry collection, Necessary Evil, appeared in 2006. Muck, the sequel to Hoi Polloi, was published in 2007.

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182: The Monthly Third Birthday Celebration
242: Writing Lives
328: Remembering Parents

ANNETTE SHUN WAH (LOCAL)
Annette Shun Wah is an author, actor and broadcaster. Her extensive career credits include SBS TV programs Imagine, The Noise, Eat Carpet and The Movie Show; and a range of documentaries, live telecasts and weekly series for ABC TV including The Big Picture, Studio 22 and Media Dimensions. She has published essays, articles and reviews and has been a regular contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald. Annette currently serves on the board of Theatre 4a.

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193: The Big Reading
250: Under the Influence
279: Growing Up Asian in Australia

ALECIA SIMMONDS (LOCAL)
Alecia Simmonds is a scholar, lawyer, theatre critic and freelance writer whose opinion pieces appear regularly on the pages of The Sydney Morning Herald, New Matilda, The Guardian Weekly, Media-Culture Journal and Arena Magazine.

She writes on contemporary legal issues concerning civil rights and political freedoms from an historical and cultural perspective. Her subjects range from confrontations between cross-dressing police impersonators and the humourless state, to civil liberties campaigns conducted by medieval knights. Most recently she has published articles on the moral regulation of pregnancy and the politics of inter-stellar communication.

Alecia has also published widely in a range of academic journals including Le Panoptique and The Australian Feminist Law Journal. She is a researcher and teacher in the history department at the University of Sydney where she is completing her doctoral thesis on the torrid affair between love and law in early colonial Australia. Her academic work involves exploring a range of legal suits peculiar to the 19th Century such as Breach of Promise of Marriage and Seduction which involved jilted lovers taking their partners to court to seek damages for wounded feelings.

Alecia is an active member of the Council for Civil Liberties.

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301: Creative Dissent

GRAEME SKINNER (LOCAL)
Graeme Skinner was born in Wangaratta, Victoria in 1960. In his early teens – and in the footsteps of its far more illustrious musical son, Nick Cave – he sang in the local Anglican cathedral choir and had his early musical training there. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music at the University of Melbourne in 1983.

He was artistic administrator of Musica Viva Australia until 1990, and since then has been a specialist freelance writer on classical music, reviewing, programming and researching on commission from fine music performing organisations, recording companies, publications and festivals.

In 1998, as recipient both of a grant from the Music Board of the Australia Council of the Arts and a 2-year fellowship at the University of Sydney, he began work on his major authorised biography of Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, the first volume of which, Peter Sculthorpe: The Making of An Australian Composer was published last year.

He was awarded a 2007 Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia to continue his Sculthorpe research. He is currently also completing a PhD in musicology on Sculthorpe at the University of Sydney.
www.users.bigpond.com/graeme.skinner

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90: The Life of Peter Sculthorpe
307: Set to Music

BABETTE SMITH (LOCAL)
Babette Smith is an independent historian and author of the bestselling Cargo of Women. Her new book is Australia’s Birthstain.

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98: Australia’s Birthstain

ADAM SPENCER (LOCAL)
Adam Spencer began his career in radio by winning the ABC Triple J Raw Comedy championship in 1996. From there, he became the co-presenter of Triple J Breakfast between 1999 and 2004. Adam has been presenting Breakfast for 702 ABC Sydney for a few years and his wide-reaching experience, immense curiosity and passion for the world has proved to be a popular formula for 702 audiences.

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268: Storytime with Mem Fox

ANNE SPUDVILAS (LOCAL)
Anne Spudvilas is an award-winning illustrator of children's books and portrait painter who also works with the Melbourne media as a courtroom artist, most recently on the terrorist trials. She illustrated Li Cunxin's The Peasant Prince, which won the 2008 Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature.

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45: Readings from the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards

ROBYN STACEY (LOCAL)
Robyn Stacey lives and works in Sydney. Stacey has exhibited and published her photographic work nationally and internationally since the mid-1980s. Her work is widely represented in public and private collections around Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery, all state galleries, university collections and Artbank.

Stacey has been artist-in-residence at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, the National Herbarium of the Netherlands and the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. She is currently senior lecturer in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney.

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161: Museum

PETER STANLEY (LOCAL)
Peter Stanley is Director of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia and former Principal Historian of the Australian War Memorial. He has published 19 books, mainly on war experience and memory in the 20th century. His next books will be Invading Australia and Twelve Men on Mont St Quentin.

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191: When Is War Justified? The Friday Night Salon

KATHLEEN STEWART (LOCAL)
Kathleen Stewart is the author of two poetry collections, seven novels, and the recent memoir, The After Life.

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83: Scar Tissue
281: Australian Lives

ANNE SUMMERS (LOCAL)
Anne Summers is an author and journalist who writes regularly for The Sydney Morning Herald. Her books include the now classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, still in print 32 years after it was first published in 1975, Gamble for Power, a book about the 1983 federal election, an autobiography Ducks on the Pond and The End of Equality.

www.annesummers.com.au

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12: The Ernies Book
105: Princesses and Pornstars