CURRICULUM VITAE
Tertiary qualifications: Bachelor of Arts (Literature) Curtin University of Technology 1982 Currently candidate for Master of Arts (English), Curtin University of Technology (1995-) Employment history: 1996-8 Lecturer in Creative Writing, Department of English, University of Western Australia 1996 Logistics Coordinator, Awesome Perth International Children's Festival 1994-6 Project Officer - short-term contract status, WA Department for the Arts 1994-5 Acting Public Affairs Manager, Western Australia Department for the Arts 1994-5 Outdoor Programme Coordinator, Festival of Perth 1994 Coordinator of Northbridge Festival for Festival of Perth 1994 Acting Arts Programme Manager, Healthway, Western Australia Health Promotion Foundation, July 1994 Coordinator of Masterclasses for Festival of Perth between visiting artists and local practitioners and students 1993-5 Tutor in Creative Writing, Curtin University of Technology 1993-4 Tutor,TAFE, Women's Studies course, Central Metropolitan College 1993 Writer-in-Residence, Curtin University of Technology, July- November 1991 State coordinator Feminist Book Fortnight 1991 Tutor, Reading/Writing Praxis, Murdoch University 1982-1994 Self-employed bookseller, (The Arcane Bookshop, Perth) Commissions: 1994 Commission by City of Perth to create writing component of Public Art project in King Street. King Street Heritage Precinct Design 1994 Researcher/writer of a publication for Women's Advisory Council on the history of fertility control in Western Australia 1992 Commission by City of Perth Town Artist's Scheme, public artwork East Victoria Park Post Office 1992 Dreams catalogue for Festival of Perth visual arts exhibition, Fremantle Arts Centre 1992 Feminisms catalogue, an exhibition by visual artists, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 1991 Forrest Place Art Foundation for a series of electronic billboard images, with visual artist Nic Beames
Consultancies: 1996 Consultant for report on future use of the Subiaco Theatre Centre 1995 Consultant to State Librarian to prepare Definition Statement for LISWA's Centre for the Book
Writing projects: 1995 Scriptwriter for All That Jazz . West Australian Ballet schools production. 1993 Consultant editor for Transperth Artists Poster project
Awards: 1995 Shortlisted in Fiction section, Premier's Book Awards for Night and Day 1990 Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction award 1989 Patricia Hackett Prize, for most outstanding contribution inWesterly journal 1989 Highly Commended, Shire of Eltham (Victoria) short story award Academic papers and public presentations: 1997 Guest lecturer, School of Social Work, Curtin University 1997 Paper presented in Work- in- Progress series, Department of English, University of Western Australia 1997 Paper presented at the second annual conference of the Association of University Writing Programs, Melbourne 1996 Paper presented at Teaching Writing, the first annual conference of the Association of University Writing Programs, Sydney 1996 Launched Bluebeard in Drag by Tracy Ryan. (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) 1996 Paper presented to Masters in Creative Arts seminar group, University of Western Sydney (Nepean) 1996 Paper presented in Work- in- Progress series, Department of English, University of Western Australia 1993 Guest lecturer, School of Visual Culture, Curtin University, Gender Studies course on the subject Writing Life Stories 1990 Paper on my own writing practice at Fremantle Arts Centre writing seminar Thoughts Into Words 1994 Paper on contemporary writing by women at Wongi Wongi weekend seminar, International Feminist Book Fair, Perth satellite event 1991 Launched Crush by Brenda Walker (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) 1990 Launched Salt , a literary journal edited by John Kinsella 1989 Launched Night Parrots by John Kinsella (Fremantle Arts Centre Press)
Award and competition judging: 1994, 1997 Judging panel, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 1995 Judge, fiction prize, South West Literary Awards 1994 Judge, Australia and Change literary prize, Trades and Labor Council and Left Book Club 1990 Judge, Lyndal Hadow Short Story Competition 1988 Judge, Katharine Susannah Prichard Short Fiction Award 1988 Judge, Ric Throssell Biography Prize
Board and committee work: current: 1996- Board Member, Barking Gecko Theatre Company 1994- Member, Consultative Committee, School of Communication and Cultural Studies, Curtin University of Technology 1992- Industry member of English Literature Syllabus Committee, Secondary Education Authority recent: 1994 Chair, Working group for Review of Subiaco Theatre Centre 1993 Member of working party on operations of the Perth Theatre Trust for Alexander Review of Theatre for Western Australia Minister for the Arts 1992-5 Chair, Consultative Committee, Faculty of Arts, Edith Cowan University. Member 1995- 1992-3 Chair, consultative committee, Subiaco Theatre Centre 1991-5 Organising committee, Writer's Festival, Festival of Perth 1991 Panel member, Creative Development Fund grants round Department for the Arts 1990-3 Trustee, Board of Perth Theatre Trust 1990-2 Vice-chair, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 1989-92 Chair, Literature Peer Assessment Panel, Western Australia Department for the Arts 1989-91 Chair and board member, Evos Music Inc. 1989 Committee member, Festival Fringe Society of Perth 1987-8 Committee, Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre 1987 Artemis Women's Art Forum, foundation member
Community activity: 1994 Regular presenter of book discussion, afternoon program ABC- 6WF Radio 1992-4 Committee member, Association for the Legal Right to Abortion Western Australia 1991-3 President, Western Australia Women's Advisory Council to the Premier 1988-90 volunteer, Support Services Western Australia Aids Council 1984-91 volunteer broadcaster 6UVS-FM/ 6RTR-FM: music programmes Workshop presenter: 1997 Blackwood Valley Writing Group, Boyup Brook 1997 Gosnells Senior High School
1996 Thornlie Senior High School 1996 Art Gallery of WA, for Kathleen O'Connor Retrospective 1996 National Book Council Regional Writers' Retreat 1995-6 Secondary Education Authority/English Teachers Association workshops on new syllabus for secondary Literature teachers 1994 Perth College 1993-7 University Extension Service, 1991-2 Edith Cowan University Community programme 1990-3 Ministry of Education Women in Education conference 1990-2 Fellowship of Australian Writers (Western Australia) 1992 Office of Women's Interests/ Extension Service University of Western Australia 1992 Hollywood Senior High School 1991 Active Expressions: Women in Arts and Sport 1992 Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Collaborations: 1991 Wrote, devised and performed My Ersatz Heart, a two-woman performance/collaboration with dancer/choreographer Alice Cummins, Studio, Hole in the Wall Theatre 1990 With musician Tos Mahoney for ABC-FM -Evos New Music Week 1990 With painter Shaun Wake-Mazey for Artrage Festival 1989-2 With painter Alison Rowley for three exhibitions at PICA
Organiser of writing seminars: 1988 deScribe: practices and provocations in contemporary writing, PICA 1989 Reading/Writing: women's writing, Hackett Hall, Northbridge 1990 Women and Writing , PICA
Public Readings: UWA English Dept reading with Beth Yahp and Elizabeth Jolley, 1995 WEB Women's readings 1993, 1994 Fremantle Arts Centre winter series 1990,1991,1992,1994 Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992,1994 Disk readings 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997 Festival of Perth Writers' Festival 1991, 1995 Club Foote, Adelaide Writers' Week 1990 Productivity Week event for DOPLAR 1991 Feminist Book Fortnight 1989 New Edition Tearooms series 1988, 1989, 1990 PICA Performance nights 1990, 1991 Feminisms weekend forum, PICA 1992 ASAL conference reading, 1991
Regular reviewing and journalism: Australian Book Review, The West Australian newspaper,Westerly, Fremantle Arts Review, public broadcaster 6RTR-FM , Artlink (South Australia), RealTime (national performance publication, Sydney)5UV Public Radio (Adelaide). Sounds Australian , Australian Music Centre, Sydney.
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