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Kate Fagan (Australian)
Kate Fagan’s previous collections of poetry include The Long Moment and return to a new physics. Her poems have appeared in major anthologies including The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry and Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets, and in the Weekend Australian, The Age and on ABC TV. An acclaimed musician and songwriter, her album Diamond Wheel won the National Film and Sound Archive Award for Best Folk Album. She lectures in literature at UWS. |
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Delia Falconer (Australian)
Delia Falconer is the author of The Service of Clouds, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, and Sydney. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Cultural Studies and is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Practices at UTS. |
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Brian Falkner (Australian)
Brian Falkner is the best-selling author of several novels for children and young adults, including The Flea Thing, The Real Thing and The Super Freak. Brian’s most recent books are Northwood and Maddy West and the Tongue Taker. His young adult novel Brainjack won the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the New Zealand Children's Choice Award. Born and raised in Auckland, Brian now lives in Queensland. |
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Michael Farrell (Australian)
Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, NSW and has lived in Melbourne since 1990. He has published several books and chapbooks of poetry including ode ode, Break Me Ouch, a raiders guide and open sesame. Michael co-edited Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets with Jill Jones. He has written both Masters and PhD theses that are new readings of colonial poetics. |
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Elizabeth Farrelly (Australian)
Dr Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based writer, author and consultant who writes a weekly opinion column for The Sydney Morning Herald and is a regular speaker and broadcaster on issues ranging from city planning to urban and feminist politics. Trained in architecture and philosophy, she has practiced in Auckland, London and Bristol and holds PhD in urbanism from the University of Sydney, where she is a former adjunct associate professor. |
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Johanna Featherstone (Australian)
Johanna Featherstone established The Red Room Company in 2003. Her poetry has featured in journals such as Quadrant, and the Best Australian Poems. In 2006 she created a series of literary TV shows, The Wordshed, in partnership with UWS where she is a research associate. Johanna is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney's School of Letters, Arts and Media. Johanna received a fellowship from the St James Ethics Center in 2008. Her chapbook Felt was released in 2010 by Vagabond Press. |
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Marc Fennell (Australian)
Marc Fennell is an author, TV presenter, critic, journalist and the host of ABC Radio National's popular technology programme Download This Show. Marc is best known as the national film critic for Triple J and his appearances on various programs on Network Ten, Foxtel and ABC News 24. He also presented three seasons of ABC TV’s groundbreaking show Hungry Beast where he investigated digital media, popular culture, gaming and technology. |
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Richard Fidler (Australian)
Richard Fidler presents the very popular Conversations program on 702 ABC Sydney. Each weekday he brings ABC listeners the life and ideas of a single guest in an hour-long conversation. Richard has unlocked the lives of astronauts, taxi drivers, comedians, ex-prisoners, carers, CIA agents and the Dalai Lama. In another life Richard was co-founder of comedy group the Doug Anthony Allstars, who performed all over the world, often in exotic places like Edinburgh, New York, Barcelona and Dubbo. |
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Toby Fitch (Australian)
Toby Fitch was born in London and raised in Sydney. His first full-length collection of poems Rawshock won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry 2012. He was shortlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize in 2012 and has published poems in anthologies, newspapers and major journals, in Australia and internationally, including Best Australian Poems 2011 and 2012, Meanjin, The Australian, Cordite, and Drunken Boat. He is poetry reviews editor for Southerly journal, is a doctoral candidate at Sydney University, and he curates the monthly poetry night at Sappho’s in Glebe. |
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Tony Flowers (Australian)
Award-winning artist Tony Flowers is the illustrator of Saurus Street, a 6-book adventure series about a normal everyday street that attracts unusual, dinosaur-shaped visitors. Tony has worked on educational, chapter and picture books in Australia and has a Masters degree in Visual Communication. His most highly valued prize to date has been from the Oshima Picture Book Museum in Toyama, Japan, for his hand made pop-up book. He lives in Sydney with his wife, two sons and dog. |
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Lionel Fogarty (Australian)
Born on Wakka Wakka land at Barambah, which is now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve, Mr Lionel Fogarty has travelled extensively both nationally and internationally presenting and performing his work. Since the seventies Lionel has been a prominent active speaker, poet writer and artist; a Murri spokesperson for Indigenous Rights in Australia and overseas. His poetry art work and oral presentation illustrates his linguistic uniqueness and overwhelming passion to re-territorialized Aboriginal language culture and meaning which speaks for Aboriginal people of Australia. |
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Andrew Ford (Australian)
Andrew Ford is the author of Try Whistling This, Illegal Harmonies and The Sound of Pictures. He is a composer, writer and broadcaster and presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National. His awards include the Paul Lowin Prize for his song cycle Learning to Howl, a Green Room Award for his opera Rembrandt’s Wife, and the Geraldine Pascall Prize for critical writing. In 2009 he was resident composer at the Australian National Academy of Music. |
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Kate Forsyth (Australian)
Kate Forsyth is the internationally bestselling author of more than 20 books, including The Witches of Eileanan and Rhiannon’s Ride series and Bitter Greens, a modern retelling of the Rapunzel story. She has won or been nominated for numerous awards, including Best First Novel and a CYBIL Award in the US, five Aurealis Awards, and a CBCA Notable Book. Her books have been published in 13 different countries, including Japan, Poland, Spain and Turkey. Kate is currently undertaking a doctorate in fairy tale retellings at the University of Technology. |
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Mark Forsyth (International)
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist and blogger. Every job he's ever had, whether as a ghost-writer or proof-reader or copy-writer, has been to do with words. He started The Inky Fool blog in 2009 and now writes a post almost every day. The blog has received worldwide attention and enjoys an average of 4,000 hits per week. His most recent book is The Etymologicon. |
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David Foster (Australian)
David Foster is one of Australia’s best known and most respected novelists. In addition to writing 12 other novels apart from Man of Letters, including the Miles Franklin Award winning The Glade Within the Grove. He has worked intermittently for Australia Post over the past 40 years, as a postman, relief postman and mail contractor in both the ACT and rural NSW. |
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David Francis (International)
David Francis' first novel Agapanthus Tango was published internationally in seven languages and then in the US as The Great Inland Sea. His second novel, Stray Dog Winter, was Book of the Year in The Advocate, Novel of the Year in the Australian Literature Review and won the 2010 American Library Association Barbara Gittings Prize for Literature. His short fiction has appeared in The Harvard Review, Best Australian Stories 2010 and 2012, Griffith Review and Meanjin. |
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Mia Freedman (Australian)
Mia Freedman is a writer, a mother, a publisher, an author and a prolific user of social media. Her background is in traditional media and after 15 years in magazines, she moved to the digital world five years ago when she founded Australia’s fastest-growing website for women, mamamia.com.au. She now runs the business with her husband and together they juggle 500,000 readers, 20 staff, 3 children and a dog. Her wheels fall off regularly. |
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Jackie French (Australian)
Jackie French is an author and wombat wrestler from the Araluen valley, author of Diary of a wombat, Pennies for Hitler, Hitler’s Daughter, The Girl from Snowy River, Dinosaurs Love Cheese and too many other books and awards to count before dinner. She also likes chooks. |
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Michael Fried (International)
Michael Fried is a poet, art historian, art critic, and literary critic. He has written extensively about abstract painting and sculpture since WWII, about French painting and art criticism from the mid-18th century to the advent of Edouard Manet and his generation (and beyond), about Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane, about the great nineteenth-century German painter-draftsman Adolf Menzel, about Charles Baudelaire, Joseph Conrad, Gustave Caillebotte, and Roger Fry, contemporary ‘art’ photographers, about Caravaggio and the transformation of Italian painting ca. 1600, and contemporary art. He is currently working on a short book on Madame Bovary, to be called Flaubert's Gueuloir. He is proudest of all of being the father of his daughter Anna. He is convinced that there is nothing harder to do than to write a successful poem. |
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Susannah Fullerton (Australian)
Susannah Fullerton has been president of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for 18 years. She is the author of Happily Ever After: Celebrating Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, A Dance with Jane Austen, Jane Austen and Crime, Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia, and she has written and recorded the audio CD Finding Katherine Mansfield. Susannah is Sydney's best known lecturer on classic novels and she leads |
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Michael Fullilove (Australian)
Michael Fullilove is the executive director of the Lowy Institute in Sydney, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. A Rhodes scholar and a former prime ministerial adviser, he writes widely on global issues for publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times, The Daily Beast and Foreign Affairs. |
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Linda Funnell (Australian)
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