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Jane Palfreyman (Australian)
Jane Palfreyman is a publisher at Australia's leading independent publishing company, Allen & Unwin. |
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Michael C.S. Park (Australian)
Michael Park migrated from Korea as a child with his family. Refusing to "grow up", he has worked in the film and television industry in various capacities as an actor, editor, business analyst and academic, and he has written and directed short films. Writing is his lifelong passion, to tell the stories of those who live in between, in the margins of our world. |
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Bruce Pascoe (Australian)
Bruce published and edited the Australian Short Stories magazine from 1982-1999, and won the Australian Literature Award in 1999, the Radio National Short Story in 1998, and FAW Short Story 2010. He is of Kulin/Tasmanian heritage and a board member of Aboriginal Corporation for Languages. His latest novels are Bloke, Chainsaw Fileand Fog. Dark Emu, a history of Aboriginal agriculture will be published by Magabala in 2013. Bruce is also a Mad cricketer. |
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Steve Pennells (Australian)
Steve Pennells is a five-time Walkley Award winner and chief writer with The West Australian newspaper. He began his journalism career at The Esperance Express and Kalgoorlie Miner before joining The West Australian, becoming its State Political Editor and heading its Sydney and Melbourne bureaus. He worked for a time as the Nine Network’s chief-of-staff in Perth. After four years freelancing in Europe, he returned to the The West Australian as its chief writer – a roving brief which has taken him to war zones and disaster areas across the globe including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, China, Europe, the US and South-East Asia. He the winner of the 2012 Gold Walkley Award, the highest honour in Australian Journalism, and is a four-time winner of the United Nations Media Peace Prize. Appearing at... |
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Sheila Pham (Australian)
Sheila Pham is a writer whose articles and personal essays have appeared in a wide range of websites and magazines, including The Big Issue Australia and Kill Your Darlings. Her radio play The Lonely Planet Guide to New Delhi was performed and broadcast at the Sydney Fringe Festival 2012. She’s currently a curator for TEDxSydney, a producer of Now Hear This Storytelling Slam in Sydney and an online editor and producer for ABC Radio. Her full-length radio documentary Saigon’s Wartime Beat can be heard on ABC Radio National and ABC Digital Radio. |
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Oliver Phommavanh (Australian)
Oliver Phommavanh loves to make people laugh, whether it's on the page as a critically-acclaimed author for kids or on stage as a stand-up comedian. Oliver has appeared on national TV and radio, as well as performing at various writers and arts festivals across Australia. He also shares his passion for writing as a teacher. Oliver’s books include Thai-riffic!, Con-nerd, Punchlines and Thai-no-mite. |
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Charles Pickett (Australian)
Dr Charles Pickett is curator of Design and the Built Environment at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. His books include The fibro frontier: a different history of Australian architecture, Refreshing! Art off the pub wall and Homes in the sky: apartment living in Australia (with Caroline Butler-Bowdon), winner of the 2008 AIA Bates Smart Award for architecture in the media. |
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Ailsa Piper (Australian)
Ailsa Piper has worked as a writer, theatre director, teacher actor, radio broadcaster and speaker. She was co-winner of the inaugural Patrick White Playwright’s Award for her theatre script Small Mercies. 2012 saw the fruition of several projects: her episode of ABC Radio’s Poetica; Bell Shakespeare’s production of an adaptation of Duchess of Malfi, co-written by Ailsa, and the publication of her first book, Sinning Across Spain.She is a passionate – some would say obsessive – walker. |
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Frederique Polet (International)
Frédérique began publishing in 1991 at the press department of Editions Fayard and then moved to Editions Belfond. In 1992, she joined the Foreign and Subsidiary Rights Department of Editions Belfond as an assistant. In 1994, when the Groupe de la Cité bought Editions Belfond, she became the Rights Manager of five publishing companies: Belfond, Presses de la Cité, Omnibus, Le Pré aux Clercs and Hors Collection. Since October 2011 she has been editorial director for the Foreign literature for the Presses de la Cité. |
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Peter Polites (Australian)
Peter Polites is editor and producer of Ornaments from Two Countries, the first journal to explore ideas of difference in the LGBTIQ community in western Sydney and regional NSW. His writing has appeared in Westside, The Penguin Plays Rough Book of Short Stories and The Lifted Brow. Peter has performed his writing at PPR and Sydney Writers’ Festival productions, Alleyway Honour and Inside the Westside Writers’ Group. |
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Nicholas Pounder (Australian)
Nicholas Pounder began bookselling in 1969. A compulsive collector, by the 1980s he made the move from new to old books and inevitably developed a concern for rarity and uniqueness in things printed and written. Eclectic in taste and prejudice, a special interest is in recording the small press production of Australian poetry between 1968 and 1988. Today he works from an office and deals in obscure printed things, manuscripts, letters, documents and creative archives of all kinds. |
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Ron Pretty (Australian)
Ron Pretty was publisher of Five Islands Press books for twenty years. He has edited the magazines Scarp:New Arts and Writing and Blue Dog:Australian Poetry. He has taught writing in the Universities of Wollongong and Melbourne, as well as in schools, colleges and community organisations. Currently he runs an Online Workshop for the AP. Ron Pretty was awarded the NSW Premier’s Award and an AM for services to Australian literature. In 2012 he spent six months at the Whiting Studio in Rome, courtesy of the Australia Council. His next book, What the Afternoon Knows, will be published in July this year. |
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Jenna Price (Australian)
Jenna Price has worked as a journalist for 25 years and is now a journalism and social media academic at UTS. She writes a weekly column for the Canberra Times and contributes to The Drum, Crikey and The Conversation. She has been a member of various feminist groups since she was 17. Her essay The writing on the walls: From office blocks to Facebook is published in Destroying the Joint. |
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Lisa Pryor (Australian)
Lisa Pryor is the author of two non-fiction books, The Pin Striped Prison: how overachievers get trapped in corporate jobs they hate and most recently A Small Book About Drugs: the debate we need to have about recreational drugs. She was previously the opinion page editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, where she also wrote a weekly column. She has degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney, and returned to the university in 2011 to study medicine. |
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John Purcell (Australian)
John Purcell has worked in the book industry for the last 20 years. While still in his 20’s he opened John’s Bookshop, a second-hand bookshop in Mosman in which he sat for 10 years reading, ranting and writing. Now he is the Head of Marketing at Booktopia, Australia’s largest 100% Australian-owned and operated online bookshop where he is charged with putting the book into Booktopia. He counts many long-dead authors among his friends. |
