CONTRIBUTORS

Jordie Albiston (; 28), a literature student at Latrobe University, has been seriously writing poetry since 1987. She has been published in Hecate, Womanspeak, Wimminews, Pre-Occupations Anthology, Rochester Castle Poets Anthology, Verandah, Writing and Mattoid. Timoshenko Aslanides writes poetry full-time in Canberra. His fifth collection of poetry, Australian things, awarded joint second prize in the Bicentennial Literary Awards, is being published by Penguin Books and will be launched by them at the 1990 Festival. Nerida Bacon (; 22). Nerida's poetry was first published in a student anthology, Inklings, and subsequently in LiNQ and Mattoid. David Bolliger (New South Wales; 23) has had work published in the University Union Recorder and in Studio. He thanks us for our encouragement. Sherryl Clark was born in New Zealand in 1956. She has been writing poetry seriously for about eight years, and is currently working as Writing Officer at Footscray Community Arts Centre (Victoria). Published in La Mama Poetica, Up From Below, Meanjin, Luna, Mattoid, plus community writing anthologies. Annette Corkhill (Queensland; 1955). Currently researching her PhD in Australian migrant literature, her verse has appeared in Outsider, LiNQ and the 1987 Anthology of Australian Poetry. Frances Creasy was born in Devon, England, arrived in in 1967. A painter, she began writing in 1987 when she moved to . This short story is not her first published work. Robert Dixon is a Senior Lecturer in English at James Cook University, Townsville.

Liz Downes. This paper on Rosa Praed's The Bond of Wedlock was originally written as an exercise in reviewing for Australian Literature students at James Cook University, and judged the best submission for 1990. Steve Evans (; 1952) has been involved with the Adelaide Friendly Street Poetry readings for fourteen years, and has had his poetry published in many anthologies, magazines and newspapers in Australia. His first collection, Edison doesn't invent the car, appeared in March 1990. His formal training is a B. Ec. from the University of Adelaide - he reports that he is "still studying".

163 Lesley Fowler (Australian Capital Territory), new to writing, has some work published in Hecate, Redoubt, Freemantle Arts Review, andfine line. Alex Frank (New South Wales; 1968), with a Diploma in Art from Townsville TAFE, has found a niche as an illustrator with a publisher in Sydney. Bonita Frank is pursuing post-graduate studies in English at the James Cook University, and this is her first opportunity to edit a literary journal. She also teaches creative writing. Alex is her daughter. Gayatrii (New South Wales; 28) has been writing poetry for two years. She is an artist and yogini, having studied art and education and travelled a little within Australia and India, and helped various good causes. Stephen Hall (Western Australia; 27). Work has been published in Westerly, Fremantle Arts Review, West Australian newspaper, Northern Perspective, Overland, and broadcast on the A.B.C. His work has also appeared in anthologies. Stephen is one of the group of Western Australian writers invited to take part in 'Writers Week' at the 1990 Adelaide Festival. Robert Handicott has lived and worked in Townsville since 1976, the year he published his first poem. His fourth published poem appeared in LiNQ the following year, and he has been a regular contributor to this journal ever since. He has now published nearly 150 poems in over thirty separate journals, magazines, newspapers and anthologies, and two small books, both from Queensland Community Press: Small Beer (1982), North, South & Elsewhere (1988). All being well he celebrates his 38th birthday this year in Berlin, where he's working for twelve months on a teacher exchange. Deborah Harris (New South Wales) graduated with a B.A. (English) from Macquarie University in 1988. She began writing seriously in 1989 and has two novels in progress. Rory Harris, a Friendly Street Poet (South Australia) is well known to LiNQ readers. Paul Hetherington (Western Australia; 1958) is Publications & Events Co-ordinator at the Fremanile Arts Centre and Associate Editor of the monthly multi-arts magazine Fremantle Arts Review. He has recently been working on a doctoral thesis in the English Department of University of Western Australia, and has had poems published in a number of Australian literary magazines and anthologies. Graeme Hetherington (Tasmania; 1937) has had poems widely published in Australian literary journals and newspapers during the past fifteen years; first book of poetry, Remote Corners published by

164 Twelvetrees Press, won inaugural Henry Kendall prize for poetry in 1988. A Tasmanian who taught in the Classics department in Hobart for 21 years, he has lived half his adult life in Europe, and now lives more or less permanently in Greece. Robert Hogan (New South Wales; 48) teaches Mathematics at a State High School and writes when he can. Canadian publications include stories in Quarry, Descant and Saturday Night; Australian publications include stories in ,LiNQ, Mattoid and Southerly. "Nerolie" will be his sixteenth published stoiy. C.E. Hull is a young Australian writer/artist who has completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts degree at University of . She has been published in Up from Below, an anthology of Australian women poets. She is also winner of the 1987 Philip Larkin Poetry Prize, presented by the . Manfred Jurgensen works in the German Department at . He writes poetry, prose, drama and criticism in English and German. Anne Kellas (Tasmania; 38) is a new Australian ,'new to the process of attempting to be published in Australia'. "Night comes to me" won the Hal Moore Memorial Prize in 1988. Work has appeared in Island, and will be in Poetry Australia sometime in 1990. Sylvia Kelso is a native of Townsville and a graduate of the University of Queensland. She pursues feminism in popular and unpopular forms, and is currently writing swords and sorcery novels for an audience of one while avoiding post-graduate studies at James Cook University. Rick Kennett (New South Wales; 34) works as a courier and writes whenever the mood or ideas strike him. With a particular interest in science fiction and supernatural fiction, he has had some work published. "Some years ago", he writes, "I did an English class at a local night school. I failed." At the same time as he was being told he was a failure at English, he was beginning to sell work overseas. 'When We Played in the Mortuary Station' was inspired by the old mortuary station which used to stand in Rockwood Cemetary in Sydney. It fell into disuse in the late 1940s and was left to rust, crumble and decay for a further ten or so years before being dismantled and transported, brick by brick, to Canberra where it was rebuilt as a church, complete with bell tower and an unusually large front entrance, big enough to allow in a large congregation at one time. Or a train." David King (Western Australia) is interested in writing experimental prose, and has had work published in Mattoid and LiNQ. He is "involved in

165 thesis work: specifically undecidability theories, both in mathematics and in Derridian/Heideggerian philosophy." Jeff Klooger (Victoria; 27) will commence post-graduate study in Social Theory this year at La Trobe University. He has had work published in Meanjin, Mairoid, Going Down Swinging, Moveable Type, and LiNQ, and has been writing "longer than he can remember." Jules Koch (South Australia; 31) is a part-time art student, child care worker, and full time poet. He has been published in LiNQ, Kangaroo, Grass Roots, Writers On Parade Anthology, Southern Review, Prints and Mattoid. Maureen Kozicka is on the "shadowy side of 40" and has lived in the bush for some years - just south of Cooktown. Consequently she values any contact with others interested in writing. Anthony Lawrence (Western Australia) has previously been published in LiNQ. His Dreaming in Stone was published by A & R in 1989. Andrew Lansdown (Western Australia; 1954), a regular contributor to LiNQ, has had a number of books of poetry published. Christine Lindberg - has "reached that age when women usually like to be unspecific." Christine was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, emigrating to Australia when she was seven. Some work has been published in LiNQ, Mattoid, Poetry Australia, Going Down Swinging, Hermes, La Mama Poetica Anthology, The Rochester Anthology and Pre-Occupations. A trained teacher, she is presently living in France with her husband and two children. eluned lloyd lives in Brisbane and has published in several magazines, including Imago, The Queensland Writer, and Scope which she edits. Justin Macdonnell (New South Wales; 1944) is a graduate of Queensland and Flinders Universities; freelance management consultant. Publications include Marketing the Arts (1986), and a history of the Federal Arts Ministry due for publication in 1990; frequent articles in newspapers and magazines in Australia and abroad; poems published in Age Monthly Review, Phoenix, Adelaide Review, Outsider, The Australian, Xpress, This Australia, and broadcast by A.B.C. and Radio 5UV. Joanne McGrath works in Management Consulting and spends her weekends and any other leisure time in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales where she does most of her writing. She has had some short stories, but mainly poetry published in Mattoid, Scarp, Brave New World, Rocky Hill Times, Studio, Womanspeak and Redoubt.

166 Jan Mordenski (U.S.A.) is currently teaching writing and literature at Mercy High School and Mercy College in Detroit. She is an editor of Moving Out: a Feminist Literary and Arts Magazine, and a member of the Detroit Literary Workshop. She has had poems published in Ireland, England, Canada and the United States. In Australia, her work has appeared in Poetry Australia, Scarp, and more is forthcoming in Mattoid and Phoenix. Rosanne Musu (b. Malta; 1953) is a Perth-based freelance writer. With over twenty poems published over the past year in journals such as Mattoid, Scarp, LiNQ, Redoubt, Webber's, Going Down Swinging, Outsider, the main body of her first collection now being collated for publication has appeared in print nationwide. She has also had some pieces in Maltese published in Australia. David Myers' book publications include The Peacocks and the Bourgeoisie: Short Fiction of Patrick White (1978); Bleeding Battlers from Ironbark: Australian Myths in Fiction and Film (1987); and Mudmaps to Paradise, Short Stories (1987). He is now completing the MS of a diary- novel entitled Moonshadow, Moonshadow, The Secret Diary of Benjamin Muenzenstein. David lives on a mango farm in Central Queensland. He is devoting his middle age to disciplining his children and a poetic interpretation of snorkelling and golf. Robert Randall (Victoria; 1948) has a wide interest in the Arts, and extensive formal training and experience. Bruce Nelson - "Thirty-nine years a servant of his State (Queensland), Townsville-born Bruce Nelson has retired from writing for others to concentrate on writing for himself. . .' He now lives in wonderful seaside Toogoom and enjoys fishing. This is his first published story for LiNQ. Barry O'Donohue is a Queensland poet who has previously been published in LiNQ. Liz Perry (Biloela, Queensland; 53) left school at 15. In 1974, with three others, she researched, interviewed and collated stories from many pioneers for "The Big Valley Story" - a local history to mark the celebration of the area's Golden Jubilee. In 1988, she was Research Consultant for a large outdoor pageant re-enacting the local Shires history. In 1989, she researched and edited a 150 page local Church History published to mark the Parish Jubilee. Betty loves history, especially local history. She is currently a "student" of the Creative Writers Correspondence Course, Institute of Modern Languages, James Cook University. David Reiter's poetry and fiction has been published in many Australian, North American and European reviews. A lecturer in professional writing,

167 he is Managing Editor of Redoubt (Australian Capital Territory). The Snow in Us, a book of poems, was published by Five Islands Press in 1989. "la fleur d'âge has already appearedin Daihousie Review in Canada. Andrew Sneddon (Queensland; 20) was an Arts-Law student at University. of Queensland, hoping to embark on post-graduate studies in Ancient History in 1990. 'Sandcastle Generals" is his first published work. Milena Stevens (North Queensland) is a secondary school teacher and post-graduate student. She has special interest in migrant women writers. Ron Store is a Senior Librarian at James Cook University. He has a continuing interest in the work of Janette Turner Hospital. His interview with her appeared in LiNQ, vol. 17 no. I. Richard Vance lives in a log cabin in the mountains of Northern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His work has been widely published. Ethel Webb. Born in England and educated in Western Australia, Ethel has a long list of writing and publication experience to her credit. Ann Whitehead (New South Wales: 50) has been writing seriously for five years, and has completed a major in writing for a Bachelor of Creative Arts at Wollongong University. "I like to write realism as well as fantasy - and a combination of both," Ann writes. "I plan to become a playwright, film scriptwriter, and movie writer for children as well as adults . . . for. writers should be versatile.. Bruce Williams (New South Wales; 28) says, "Shelley is my favourite poet." He works as a producer for public radio 2SER in Sydney, and has had a few poems and stories published in magazines such as Overland, Poetry Australia, Jnprint and Compass. Graeme Wilson's translations of Japanese, Vietnamese and Chinese Poetry are widely published. He lives in Devon, England. Frank York lectures in music at James Cook University, Townsville, and has been involved in various aspects of the performing Arts from theatre thru opera. Georgina York, a former tutor in Contemporary Comparative Drama at James Cook University, is currently an advisory teacher in migrant education.

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