Sunil Badami Launches and Events, Including the Australian Poetry Slam Championships, Refugee Week and More
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Mentors are listed alphabetically by surname: MENTOR NAME AND SPECIALTY MENTOR BIOGRAPHY GENRE(S) I’m a writer, performer, broadcaster, academic and storyteller. From being a trainee circus clown in England to a sous chef in a pub at the foot of a mountain on the Isle of Man, a financial planner in the CBD to managing a Kings Cross adult shop, I’ve had more strange and varied jobs than I’ve had haircuts. But I’ve also mentored and given editorial guidance to some of Australia’s best emerging and established authors. With nearly two decades’ of teaching and writing experience, I can offer writers of any level, ability and genre, both constructive and formative technical feedback and personal insights gained from my own work and career. I’ve written for pretty much every major publication in Australia. My work’s been published in Australia and overseas. I’ve written and performed work at the Belvoir Street and Griffin Theatres, as well as regularly hosting Sunil Badami launches and events, including the Australian Poetry Slam Championships, Refugee Week and more. I devised, wrote, produced and presented the ABC Local Radio show Sunday Takeaway, the award-winning documentary Riddle. Mystery. Enigma and Stones and Sticks and Suchlike, based on the story of the same name, which is a prescribed text for HSC students around Australia. I continue to appear regularly on ABC Radio and TV, including on The Drum and The Mix. I’ve got a BA Hons (Communications) from the University of Technology, Sydney; a Masters in Creative and Life Writing with Distinction (Goldsmiths); and a Doctor of Creative Arts in Creative Writing and Literary Theory from UTS, where I teach creative writing, film studies and radio production, and I’m on the board of the School of Communications’ Industry Advisory Board. In addition to delivering the ASA’s 2017 Colin Simpson Lecture, I was a chair of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2016-18 and a jurist and academy member of MENTOR NAME AND SPECIALTY MENTOR BIOGRAPHY GENRE(S) the 2017 Asia-Pacific Screen Awards. I’m represented by the Jane Novak Literary Agency. First published as a poet, Catherine Bateson has twice won the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, and been awarded the Queensland Premier's Award, Younger Readers. She's written more than a dozen novels for young adults and younger readers. Catherine Catherine grew up in a family of writers and spent most Bateson of her childhood in Brisbane where her mother owned a second-hand bookshop. She continues to spend her life surrounded by books and loves nothing more than to talk about writing and reading. She teaches adult courses in Literature and, with Leonie Tyle, runs the partnership, • Children’s Books 5-12 Tyle&Bateson providing editing assistance to writers. years She also teaches Professional Writing and Editing. She • Young Adult 12-15 years is passionate about living a creative life. In another life • Picture Books she believes she would have been a textile artist. Catherine offers mentees an honest appraisal of their work and a constructive and flexible approach to revision. www.catherine-bateson.com Christina Booth is a children’s author and has illustrated over twenty books published both in Australia and overseas. Christina holds degrees in fine and visual art and teaching, with many years of experience teaching both adults and children art and writing. Several of Christina Booth Christina’s books have been awarded notable book awards and her picture book Kip won a CBCA Honour Book Award in 2010. Her picture book, Welcome Home, won the Environmental Award for Children’s Literature in 2014. • Picture Books • Illustrators – Christina has illustrated for many of Australia’s great children’s, animation, authors, including Colin Thiele, Max Fatchen, graphic novels, non- fiction Christobel Mattingly and Jackie French. She has been • Children’s Books 5-12 published with Scholastic Australia/Omnibus Books, years Ford Street Publishing, Windy Hollow Books, Black Dog/Walker Books, National Library of Australia Publishing and National Museum of Australia Press. Christina is a Books in Homes Ambassador, the MENTOR NAME AND SPECIALTY MENTOR BIOGRAPHY GENRE(S) Tasmanian SCBWI Northern coordinator and the Tasmanian ASA representative. Dr Leslie Cannold is a an author, commentator, ethicist, researcher and social activist. Her non-fiction works include the award-winning The Abortion Myth and What, No Baby? She is a regular guest on Radio 702 ABC Sydney and Radio 4BC in Brisbane. Her Moral Maze column appears fortnightly in the Sun-Herald and she is the resident ethicist on Channel 10’s 7pm Project. In 2005, Leslie was listed alongside Professor Peter Singer, Professor Gustav Nossal and Inga Clendinnen as Leslie Cannold one of Australia’s top 20 public intellectuals. In 2011 Leslie has been named the Australian Humanist of the Year by The Council of Australian Humanist Societies. This award has been bestowed on Leslie in recognition of her valuable contribution to public debates on a wide range of ethical issues, particularly to • Literary fiction and do with women and family life. short stories • General non-fiction Leslie is an adjunct Fellow at the School of Philosophy, • Journalism Anthropology & Social Inquiry at the University of Melbourne and senior lecturer at the Monash Institute of Health Services Research. She is President of Reproductive Choice Australia, a national coalition of pro-choice organisations that played a key role in removing the ban on the abortion drug RU486 in 2006 and of Pro Choice Victoria, which was instrumental in the decriminalisation of abortion in Victoria in 2008. She is also a Dying with Dignity ambassador for law reform. Nadine Davidoff is a freelance book editor and writing/editing teacher with extensive trade publishing Nadine Davidoff experience. She has worked as a Senior Editor at Random House and a Commissioning Editor at Black Inc. Nadine’s clients include major publishing companies and literary agents for whom she undertakes structural • Literary fiction and and copy editing. Nadine offers manuscript development short stories services to established and first-time authors seeking • Narrative non-fiction editorial feedback before submitting their work to an agent or publisher. MENTOR NAME AND SPECIALTY MENTOR BIOGRAPHY GENRE(S) Nadine has taught in RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing course and she teaches the annual Fiction Editing Masterclass in Melbourne University’s Masters of Publishing program. Since 2015, she has taught the three-day masterclass as part of the ACT Writers’ Centre Hard Copy program. In 2017, Nadine was a guest presenter at the Residential Editorial Program run by the Australia Council. In 2015, she conducted a manuscript assessment seminar at the Society of Editors national conference. She has participated in numerous writing festivals, including the Emerging Writers Festival, the Jewish Writers Festival and the Glen Eira Storytelling Festival. Nadine is a registered mentor in the Australian Society of Authors Mentorship Program. Following her mentorship of Adam Crittenden, his book Subzero was published by Penguin Random House in 2016. Garry Disher is one of Australia’s best-known authors. He was born on a farm in South Australia, and decided in childhood to become a writer, influenced by a love of reading, his father’s original bedtime storytelling, and the isolation of farm life. He later gained a BA degree Garry Disher from Adelaide University, and worked and travelled widely in the UK, Europe and Africa after graduation. On his return to Australia he graduated with a Masters in Australian History at Monash University, in Victoria, but was also writing short stories for competitions and literary magazines, and on the strength of these was • Literary Fiction and awarded a creative-writing fellowship to Stanford short stories University in California. • Genre and General Fiction, particularly Back in Melbourne, Disher taught creative writing for Romance, Crime, Sci Fi many years, to supplement his writing income. A full- • Young Adult 12-15 time writer since 1988, he’s published over 50 books: general/literary novels, crime thrillers, story collections, fiction for children and teenagers, anthologies (as editor), creative writing handbooks and Australian History textbooks. His crime novels are rapidly earning an international MENTOR NAME AND SPECIALTY MENTOR BIOGRAPHY GENRE(S) reputation, with editions published in the USA, England, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Italy, Spain and Hungary. He’s made three author tours of Germany, where he’s won the Deutsche Krimi Preis three times, appeared on best-seller lists and been a guest of the Munich and Cologne writers’ festivals. In May 2009 he toured the USA, following rave reviews for the Challis and Destry crime novels and Chain of Evidence being listed as a best-book-of-the-year by Kirkus Reviews magazine. Chain of Evidence and Wyatt won crime novel of the year awards in Australia, and several of his other titles were shortlisted. His most recent novels are the seventh Challis and Destry police procedural, Signal Loss (Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016), the standalone crime novel Under the Cold Bright Lights (Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017) the literary novel, Her (Hachette, Sydney, 2017) and the Wyatt thriller, Kill Shot (Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2018). Julie Ditrich is the founder and CEO of Comics Mastermind™, a professional development service for Australian comics creators, as well as a comics writer and editor, and publishing consultant. Julie has a BA in Professional Writing (University of Canberra), and has worked in mainstream publishing as a bookseller, publicist, marketing manager and author. She was also employed as publications manager at the Australian Society of Authors (ASA). Julie has worked extensively Julie Ditrich as a comic book writer predominantly in the fantasy genre with sales of over 270,000 comics all over the world.