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Select Biog, Writing

Writing, Editing, researching

 

Early

1967 One edition, Wyong High school newsletter, quickly banned.

​1972  Editor, journalist, Opus, Uni of Newcastle student newspaper. Renamed, The New Jerusalem Banana.

1977-83  Edit, recordings, and writings, NSW DoE, Correspondence School courses in Commerce, Social Science and English.

Lecturer, Art History, C20th Century Culture, Uni of Western Sydney.
1988-2003  Edit, write, product journal, Great Australian Walks
1980-84  Research, lecturing, Australian Photographic Project.
Radio Interviews: 2BL/702, Radio Newcastle, 2UE (several), 3AW.
Public Readings/Speaker/ Guest Lectures: NSW Art Gallery (poetry), NSW Writers Centre, various Lions, Apex events, various Local Historical Societies, Newcastle and Western Sydney universities.
1980-88  Various articles, Photofile, journal of the Australian Centre for Photography,  Honi Soit, Uni of Sydney, ArtLink (reviews), and Outdoors (Watagan Forests).


 

1988- 2007 Inhibited by proprietorship of Tourism Business
  Included grant, involving first wilderness lodge, Blue Mtns
  Included extensive television and radio exposure, including
   Sixty Minutes, Great Outdoors, News (Newcastle) and Getaway.
  Design and production of Travel Product magazines.

Publications, Non-Fiction

Great North Walk (two ed.)  1988, 1990 (Kangaroo Press).

Following GNW as official Bicentennial Project, co-authored the guide book for Sydney to newcastle/Hunter Valley track.

New South Walks Heritage Walks,   1992 (Kangaroo Press).

Follow up, with historic treatment of various NSW walking tracks and National Parks.


 

Fiction

Belonging, A photo-Novel.

Based on the the life of Dr Louis Gabriel, the 'Black Doctor', and documentary photographer.

1887-1905. See BELONGING

​Bicentennial Trust/ Forgetting and Remembering.

See Storyline for Bicentennial Trust,

Murder mystery based on real events. prior to Australia's 1988 Bicentennary. 

Beating Time, Highly Commended, Peter Cowan Short Story Competition.

Judges comment: An epic evocation of place. Yes, this story proves that you can produce an epic in a mere 488 words! Like all good fiction, perhaps, this piece is ultimately an investigation into how time passes and works. Energetic, almost punch-drunk writing (I mean that as a complement!): "Let the stray dogs and big ideas fight over the bones behind the Calle mayor. Fabulous!

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