Sydney Writers' Festival

GYPSY TAYLOR (LOCAL)
Gypsy Taylor illustrates the Pearlie books and works in film, illustrating costumes for Narnia and Australia. She is also currently at work on the Pearlie animation series.

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275: Creating a Hurly Burly World for Pearlie

MATTHEW THOMPSON (LOCAL)
Matthew Thompson has written extensively about Muslim insurgencies in the southern Philippines, sharing Pepsi with Abu Sayyaf bomb-makers and beer with Filipino Marines. His literary reportage from Colombia, My Colombian Death, will be published later this year.

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191: When Is War Justified? The Friday Night Salon

KATHERINE THOMSON (LOCAL)
Katherine Thomson’s work for the theatre includes Diving for Pearls, Darlinghurst Nights, Navigating, Wonderlands and Harbour which was written for the opening of the new Sydney Theatre. King Tide will be produced later this year by Griffin Theatre.

Her television writing includes G.P, Halifax f.p, Grassroots, Blackjack and the recent ABC mini-series about East Timor, Answered by Fire.

She’s the recipient of numerous literary awards for her work in both stage and screen, most recently for the award-winning feature documentary Unfolding Florence – The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst.

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114: Words and Vision: FOXTEL Screenwriter's Address

MARGARET THROSBY
Margaret Throsby is one of Australia's most diverse, popular and admired broadcasters. She currently presents the national Morning programme on ABC Classic FM.

Margaret joined the ABC's announcing staff in 1967 and went on to become a barrier-breaker for women in broadcasting. In 1978 she became the first woman to read the ABC television news nationally.

Over the years, Margaret Throsby has presented a variety of successful music and current affairs programmes both on radio and television. She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for 'Services to Broadcasting.'

appearing at...
40: Jana Wendt Literary Lunch
237: Kylie Kwong’s China

STEVE TOLTZ (LOCAL)
Steve Toltz was born in Sydney and has lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona and Paris, working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher and screenwriter. A Fraction of the Whole is his first novel.

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14: A Fraction of the Whole: Steve Toltz in Conversation
310: Heroes and Criminals
289: Steve Toltz in Conversation

EMMA TOM (LOCAL)
Emma Tom is an award-winning Australian journalist, author, broadcaster and musician. She has an opinion on just about anything but is particularly interested in ethics, feminism, sex, religion, democracy, gender, Socrates, postmodernism, human nature, East Asian politics, terrorism, television vampires and the delightful disgustingness of dogs.
www.emmatom.com.au

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144: Why Manners Matter
288: Mem Fox in Conversation

NICK TOTH (LOCAL)
Nick Toth grew up in various countries as the son of an Austrian diplomat. He purchased his first set of 1200s at the age of 16, inspired by DMC World Champion Cash Money and the rising hip-hop phenomenon. After attending military service, university and art school, DJing in Austria and Italy and working with an Austrian hip-hop crew, Nick moved to Australia in 1995 to complete his Bachelor of Arts (communication) studies.

In Sydney he has been heavily involved with the local hip-hop community and club culture, as a DJ/producer, radio host and DJ course tutor. By relentlessly exposing radio listeners/clubbers/hip-hop heads and others Australia-wide to new and unheard sounds, Nick would like to be understood as an entertainer as well as educator, with an uncompromising dedication to musical excellence and an acute awareness of the cultural contexts and historical roots of contemporary music, from hip-hop and R&B to dancehall reggae, deep funk to electro.
www.myspace.com/djnicktoth

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263: Hip Hop Projections 3

JOHN TRANTER (LOCAL)
John Tranter has published 20 collections of verse and is the editor, with Philip Mead, of the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry.

John lives in Sydney, where he edits the internet magazine, Jacket. His most recent book is Urban Myths: 210 Poems which was awarded the 2006 Victorian state award for poetry, the 2007 New South Wales state award for poetry, the 2008 South Australian state award for poetry, and the 2008 South Australian Premier’s Prize for the best book overall.
www.johntranter.com

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232: The Sydney Readings: City Without End

MARK TREDINNICK (LOCAL)
Mark Tredinnick is an Australian poet, natural historian and essayist. His poem “Eclogues” won the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2007 and was first published in the anthology Eclogues.

His writing has appeared in Best Australian Essays and in many anthologies, newspapers and journals. Mark is also a teacher of creative and business writing and has worked as a book publisher and lawyer.

Much of his prose and poetry explores the syntax of places and the ecology of language. In 2003, he helped found the Australian and New Zealand branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.

Mark’s books include A Place on Earth, The Land’s Wild Music, and The Little Red Writing Book, published in the US and UK as Writing Well: the Essential Guide. His book, The Blue Plateau, will be published in 2009.

Mark lives with his family by the Wingecarribee River, southwest of Sydney; his essay “A Storm & a Teacup” describes the old farmhouse near Bowral, where he moved in 2007, and the country surrounding it. He is working on a volume of poems, a book on the consolations of literature in a frantic age, and The Little Green Grammar Book.
www.marktredinnick.com.au

appearing at...
131: Gregory Day in Conversation
158: The Water’s Edge

MC TREY (LOCAL)
MC Trey is an ARIA, Urban Music, 3D and Jack Awards nominee. Over the past 12 years, she has established herself as a prominent artist within hip-hop and urban music in Australia. Her unique style offers a fresh serve of positive, melodic and insightful rhymes and rhythms about life, love and her experiences.

She began writing lyrics in primary school, while listening to reggae, island music and what ever was on the radio, and was introduced to hip-hop through movies like Krush Groove and music videos by Rock Steady Crew, but wasn't propelled to rap her own words over beats until the early 90s. Her Fijian heritage and father's gospel singing helped inspire and mould Trey's musical abilities which has seen her entertain crowds around Australia, NZ, the US, UK and Japan.

Trey has released two solo albums, Daily Affirmations and Tapastry Tunes and a collaboration album with Maya Jupiter and DJ Nick Toth as Foreign Heights.
www.myspace.com/treythemc

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263: Hip Hop Projections 3

CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS (INTERSTATE)
Christos Tsiolkas wrote the novels Loaded, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe which won The Age 2006 Book of the Year Fiction Award. He is also the author of several plays including Who's Afraid of the Working Class? and Dead Caucasians, and Non Parlo di Salo, co-written with Spiro Economopoulos.

Christos Tsolkas’ participation at Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by Allen & Unwin.

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108: Writers as Readers
129: Australian Classics
253: PEN Voices: The 3 Writers Project

LEE TULLOCH (LOCAL)
Lee Tulloch was born in Melbourne and began writing about fashion and culture for Vogue Australia. Since then, she has lived in New York and Paris and written for international publications such as Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times and New York, as well as many Australian publications. In 1984 she was the founding editor of Harper’s Bazaar Australia.

Lee is also the author of five books, Fabulous Nobodies, Wraith, Two Shanes, The Cutting and Perfect Pink Polish. Her latest is The Woman in the Lobby.

Lee lives in Sydney with her husband, photographer Tony Amos, and their daughter.

www.leetulloch.com

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176: Traveller’s Tales
324: Lee Tulloch in Conversation

MARIA TUMARKIN (INTERSTATE)
Maria Tumarkin is the author of Traumascapes which was shortlisted in the prize for a first book of history in the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne; her essays and reviews appear frequently in The Age, The Australian, The Monthly and other publications. Her new book is Courage. It was recently shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award.

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57: What’s the Big Idea?
87: Courage

GERRY TURCOTTE (LOCAL)
Gerry Turcotte is a Professor of English and Creative Writing and the Executive Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. He is past President of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, past Secretary of the International Council for Canadian Studies and Founding Director of the Centre for Canadian–Australian Studies.

He is the author and editor of numerous publications including Jack Davis: The Maker of History, Writers in Action, Masks, Tapestries, Journeys, Canada Australia: Towards a Second Century of Partnership, with Kate Burridge and Lois Foster and Compr(om)ising Post/colonialisms: Challenging Narratives & Practices, with Greg Ratcliffe.

Gerry Turcotte is also a poet and novelist. His creative writing publications include three collections of poetry: Neighbourhood of Memory, Winterlude and Hauntings: the ‘Varuna’ Poems. His novel, Flying in Silence was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year in 2001. He was one of four writers chosen to perform, with a live jazz ensemble, at the Sydney Opera House in 2002. He also held his first solo photographic/poetry exhibition at the Wollongong City Gallery in the same year.

His most recent book is Border Crossings: Words & Images.

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61: The University of Notre Dame New Writers
164: Ryan Knighton in Conversation

IAN TYRRELL (LOCAL)
Ian Tyrell is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, where he has taught for more than 30 years. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at the University of Queensland and Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. His interests include American history, environmental history and historiography.

Among other books, he has written True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 and, also with an environmental component, Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and its Opponents in Australia. He has published articles on modern environmentalism, eucalyptus trees, Australian environmental history and environmental renovation. He is currently interested in the history of urban rivers.

A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he has served as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
iantyrrell.wordpress.com

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158: The Water’s Edge