OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ On Shutterspeed: The themes of loneliness, friendship, AJ grief and loss are universal and are treated in quite an original way...The ending is a cracker – unexpected 䉊 ᫜ and chilling! AJ – Fiction Focus BETTS ީӄShutterspeedφᆚ⤢Ƚਁ䉀Ƚ՚Ⱁૂཧ㩳ᵢᱥᮽᆜ ૷ѣ≮ᚈⲺѱ从θᵢҜҕуׁཌθռቅ䈪Ⲻ㔉ቴপԚ֒ 䈱㘻ཝ᝕ᝅཌȾ – Fiction Focus AJ BETTS is an author, teacher, speaker and cyclist. Zac & Mia is her third novel for On Zac & Mia: Zac and Mia are unforgettable young adults and winner of the 2014 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature. – they put hooks into my heart that are It was inspired by her work teaching at a children’s hospital and it’s a lot about love, still there. Be warned: if you pick up this and a little bit about cancer. She lives in Perth, and writes when she’s not bicycling – book, you won't want to put it down. or picking up shopping lists from the supermarket floor. –Fiona Wood, author AJ 䍓ᯥᱥжփ֒ᇬθᮏᐾθ╊䈪ᇬθੂᰬҕᱥж੃僇㺂⡧ླ㘻ȾZac & Mia ᱥྯⲺㅢп䜞䶈 ቇᒪቅ䈪Ⱦ䈛ቅ䈪㦙㧭2014 ᒪEthel Turner 䶈ቇᒪᮽᆜྌȾAJ 䍓ᯥⲺࡑ֒⚫᝕ᶛ㠠ྯ൞жᇬ ީӄZ a c & M i a : 䘏ᱥжᵢԚӰ䳴ᘎⲺቅ䈪Ă ݵㄛॱ䲘Ⲻᮏᆜᐛ֒㔅়Ⱦቅ䈪ԛ⡧Ѱѱ从θެѣᴿжӑф⯴⯻ᣍҿⲺ⡽ᯣȾ 䍓ᯥቻօ൞ AJ ᛻㢸ૂӰ⢟㍝㍝ᣉօ䈱㘻Ⲻᗹ䇟Ӱ⡧у䠀ᢁȾ ᯥθ࡟⭞ѐ֏ᰬ䰪䘑㺂ࡑ֒Ⱦ⧶ F i o n a Wo o d ֒ᇬ – www.ajbetts.com AUSTRALIAN WRITERS WEEK 2 0 1 5 ⓠ ๔ ݖ χক ᪴ 2015 ႓ | 0 9 | 8 0 OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ 哜ށ㾵ቲg䍓޻ᐪgށ᣿ށᱥжփ⍱䏹൞◩ཝ 㺬 ᅩ ࡟Ӑ㡔ਦȽ⭫ਦૂ਺ཝ㢸ᒼ⍱ࣞѣⲺ⸛੃ᵍ䈫 ٸ 叓 㺞╊㘻Ⱦྯਇ㺞Ҽཝ䠅䈍ↂૂ䇺䇰ᮽㄖθ࠰⡾ ጡ 䗽њᵢ䈍䳼ȾྯⲺ⸣ㇽቅ䈪䳼 Foreign Soil ݻ ڲ 䉊 ┗Ӱ䚉ѱѿ㢨ᖟθެѣⲺӰ⢟ऻᤢᚿቲ༦੃ 㯿 Ⲻ Villawood 㖷⮏ѣᗹ䠂㔓ᵑⲺሱ≸ᒽᣚ ⤲ ٸ ៶ ٸ 㘻χ僇⵶ᤲ㻻㠠㺂䖜ᢴሱឦ㯿Ⲻ኷㤅ѯ⭭ᆟ MAXINE ݵ χ ѰҼᢴሱࢃ䙊㙂⿱ᔶ⢏ҦࣖҗᶇⲺ䶈ᒪྩ B E N E B A ᆆȾ哜ށ㾵ቲഖՖ䇦The Hate Race 㧭ᗍ2014 ᒪHazel Rowley fellowship ྌȾ CLARKE ...a small tidal wave crashed into the face of © Nicholas Walton-Healey the current Australian literary landscape... she could make you laugh, challenge you, MAXINE BENEBA CLARKE is a renowned spoken word performer whose inspire you. You’re guaranteed to be moved, work has been delivered on stages and airways and at festivals across Australia. something inside will shift in some small Her poetry and commentary has been widely published and she is the author way. And isn’t that what we all want to of two poetry collections. Her collection of short stories, Foreign Soil shows all achieve as writers? sides of humanity, with characters such as a desperate asylum seeker pacing Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven-year-old Sudanese boy –Overland, online W i n n e r o f finding solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant on the warpath the Victorian through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton; and a young woman departing rural ൞◩ཝ࡟Ӑᖉԙᮽᆜ⮂ᦶ䎭ҼቅቅⲺ⎠▤Ⱦྯ P r e m i e r ' s Jamaica in search of her destiny. She is the recipient of the 2014 Hazel Rowley 䇟֖ㅇθ᥇ᡎ֖ᡌ◶֖ࣧȾ֖жᇐՐ㻡᝕ࣞθ Unpublished ൞֖Ⲻ޻ᗹ␧༺◶䎭⏕╠Ⱦ䘏у↙ᱥ֒ᇬԢᡶ fellowship for her forthcoming memoir The Hate Race, about growing up black M a n u s c r i p t in white, middle class Australia. 䘳≸ⲺѾϋ A w a r d 2 0 1 3 www.slamup.blogspot.com.au –Overland, online AUSTRALIAN WRITERS WEEK 2 0 1 5 ⓠ ๔ ݖ χ ᪴ ႓ ক 2015 | 1 1 | 0 1 OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ TIM COPE, FRGS, is an award winning adventurer, author, and filmmaker with a special interest in the traditional cultures of Central Asia and Russia. He has studied as a wilderness guide in the Finnish and Russian subarctic, ridden a bicycle across Russia to China, and rowed a boat along the Yenisey River through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. Tim's most renowned journey 㦯 ໳ was a three year, 6000 mile journey by horse from Mongolia ჴ ᮛ to Hungary on the trail of Genghis Khan – a quest to TIM understand the horseback nomads of the great Eurasian COPE steppe. On the Trail of Genghis Khan is his book about this journey. Tim Cope is a wise young man who knows how to travel, and why, and which details to record for the delight and enlightenment of his readers. I suspect that .㪸࿼gᇽᲤᱥжփ᧘䲟ᇬȽ֒ᇬ޲⭫ᖧ࡬֒Ӱθᴴ㧭䗽ཐ〃ྌ亯ȾԌሯѣӐૂ׺㖍ᯥⲺ here we have a classic, likely to inspire generations yet unborn 䗽㣢ަૂ׺㖍ᯥӐ्ᶷ॰Ⲻ㦈䠄ੇሲθᴴ僇䖜サ䏀׺ڐՖ㔕ᮽौᴿ⵶⢯ࡡⲺު䏙ȾԌᆜ 㖍ᯥࡦѣളθ䘎ࡈ㡯⋵ਬቲດ⋩サ䗽㾵ե࡟Ӑࡦ䗴्ߦ⍁Ⱦ㪸࿼ᴶ㪍੃Ⲻ᯻ぁᱥԌ⋵⵶ –Dervla Murphy ᡆਿᙓ⊍Ⲻ䏩䘯䘑㺂Ⲻж⅗়ᰬпᒪθԄ㫏ਚࡦा⢏࡟䐞䏀6000 㤧䠂Ⲻ傢㜂᯻㺂Ⱦ䘏ᱥ ж⅗ѰҼ␧ޛ⨼䀙Ӑ⅝ཝ㥿৕傢㜂рⲺ⑮⢝≇ᰅⲺ᧘㍘ҁ᯻ȾɅ䘳䳅ᡆਿᙓ⊍Ⲻ䏩䘯Ɇ 㪸࿼gᇽᲤᱥжѠᴿᲰឝⲺᒪ䖱Ӱθ⸛䚉ྸ֋ԛ਀Ѱ֋᯻㺂θᒬъ⸛䚉ӶѾṭⲺ㓼㢸 ׵ᱥ㪸࿼ࡑ֒Ⲻީӄ䘏⅗᯻ぁⲺҜȾ 㜳ཕ㔏ԌⲺ䈱㘻ᑜᶛ҆䏙ૂ᝕ᛕȾҕ䇮൞ᵠᶛθԌՐ㻡ᖉ֒㔅ޮθ㔏ӰԢᑜᶛ⚫᝕Ⱦ www.timcopejourneys.com –Dervla Murphy AUSTRALIAN WRITERS WEEK 2 0 1 5 ⓠ ๔ ݖ χ ᪴ ႓ ক 2015 | 1 3 | 2 1 OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ Within two pages I was laughing – within the next ten I had a tear in ٸ ጰ 冮 my eye. Lost & Found is glorious, ᝡ 㐡 ᫜ funny, moving, heart-wrenching, heart-warming. It has the perfect BROOKE mix of brilliant storytelling, wonderfully imaginative writing, DAVIS truly memorable characters, distinctive voices and real emotion. This is a novel that readers will fall in love with; cry with; laugh with; root for! –Sarah Rigby, UK publisher ©Alison Bowyer ⵁ ࡦ ࢃ њ 享 ᰬ ᡇ ᔶ ᘶ ཝ ㅇ θ ⵁ ࡦ ੄ ᶛ ॷ 享 ᰬ ᡇ Ⲻ ⵲ 䠂 ಏ ┗ Ҽ Travelling in South-East Asia, BROOKE DAVIS rang home to discover her mother had ⌠ ≪ Ⱦ Ʌ 䘭 ཧ ф ਇ ⧦ Ɇ ᱥ ᴿ 䏙 died in a freak car accident. Returning to her travels, she had long conversations with Ƚ ᝕ Ӱ Ƚ 䇟 Ӱ ᨠ ᗹ ৾ ビ ᗹ Ⲻ ж her travelling partner – whose father was dying of cancer – about grief. The notes from this time revealed two voices: a little girl, a ball of energy, hopeful, obsessed with death, ᵢ Ҝ Ⱦ ᆹ ᇂ 㗄 ൦ 㷃 ਾ Ҽ 儎 䎻 Ⲻ and an elderly woman, grumpy and lost who didn’t want to know about death. Her ᭻ Ӂ 䇨 䘦 ᢶ ᐝ Ƚ ݻ ┗ ᜩ 䊗 ࣑ Ⲻ debut Lost & Found was born, written as part of a PhD at Curtin University, Western ᮽ ᆍ Ƚ ␧ ޛ Ӱ ᗹ Ⲻ Ӱ ⢟ ᖘ 䊗 Ƚ Australia, and has since sold into over twenty countries around the world. ⤢ ⢯ Ⲻ ༦ 丩 ૂ ⵕ ᇔ Ⲻ ᛻ ᝕ Ⱦ 䘏 ᱥ ж ᵢ 㜳 䇟 䈱 㘻 䐕 ⵶ ⅘ ㅇ Ƚ Ⱁ ൞ђ঍Ӑ᯻㺂ᰬθᐹ劷ށgᡪ㔪ᯥᢉ⭫䈓ഔᇬθপᗍ⸛ྯⲺ∃Ө൞ж൰シྸެᶛⲺ䖜⾮ѣѝ ⭕Ⱦ䘊ഔࡦ᯻ぁѣ੄θྯૂྯⲺ᯻ժ䘑㺂Ҽ䮵䈾Ⱦ᯻ժⲺ⡬Өഖ㖯ᛙⲂ⯽㙂ེེжᚥθњӰ ଣθᒬѰҁ௓ᖟⲺቅ䈪Ⱦ 䈾਀Ҽᛨ՚Ⱦ䘏жᰬᵕⲺㅊ䇦։⧦Ҽњ〃༦丩φжѠᱥቅྩᆟθݻ┗Ҽ㜳䠅ૂᑂᵑθপ᮪ཟ ᜩ⵶↱ӗχਜжѠᱥрҼᒪ㓠ⲺྩӰθᳪ䒷৾䘭㥡θж⛯ҕу᝵ᝅҼ䀙↱ӗȾᐹ劷ށⲺㅢж –Sarah Rigby, 㤧ള࠰⡾Ӱ ᵢҜɅ䘭ཧфਇ⧦Ɇቧ䘏ṭӝ⭕ҼȾ䘏ᱥྯ൞㾵◩ཝ࡟Ӑ〇ᔭཝᆜ᭱䈱ঐ༡ᆜփᰬ䇰ᮽⲺж 䜞࠼θ䈛Ҝ⭻䬶ӂॷཐѠളᇬȾ 1 5 | AUSTRALIAN WRITERS WEEK 2 0 1 5 ⓠ ๔ ݖ χ ᪴ ႓ ক 2015 | 4 1 OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ ᐜ ૾ · ⌳ · ށ ⊍ ᱥ ж Ѡ 䘠 ਿ 䠂 ጓ ৵ ᶒ ╊ ྅ ᇬ Ƚ ਙ ᢶ 㺞 ╊ 㘻 Ƚ 㺍 㡔 㢰 ᵥ ᇬ θ ᒬ ъ ᱥ Ԁ ᒪ Ⲻ ◩ ∪ ཝ ࡟ Ӑ 䈍 ↂ ཝ ┗ 䍥 ߖ ߑ Ⱦ ᐜ ૾ Ⲻ Ӑ ⍨ Ƚ ѣ ђ ਀ ⅝ ⍨ ᐗ ╊ ↄ ਍ ࡦ Ҽ ✣ ⛾ ⅘ 䘄 Ⱦ Ԍ ᱥ 2 0 1 4 ٸ ᒪ ൞ 傢 ᗭ 䠂 Ѵ 㺂 Ⲻ ള 䱻 䈍 ↂ Z O H A B ཝ ┗ 䍥 Ⲻ ߩ 䎑 䘿 ᢁ ᒬ ޛ 䘿 ৸ ࣖ Ҽ ж Ѡ ൞ 䘠 ᤒ Ⲻ 㢰 ᵥ ᇬ 傱 Z E E ൦ 亯 ⴤ Ⱦ ᐜ ૾ 䘎 ᱥ ж Ѡ ᮏ 㛨 㘻 θ Ԍ ᱥ “ ⌳ · 䈍 ↂ ” Ⲻ ࡑ ခ Ӱ K H A N Ⱦ 䘏 Ѡ 㓺 㓽 㠪 ࣑ ӄ 䙐 䗽 Ѡ Ӱ ਇ ኋ ૂ 㺞 ╊ ᙝ 䍞 Ⲻ ⹊ 䇞 Ր ᶛ ◶ ࣧ ᯦ ж ԙ Ⲻ 䈍 Ӱ Ⱦ Zohab Zee Khan has little in common with the dead white male poets students commonly meet at high school. ZOHAB ZEE KHAN is a didgeridoo player, harmonica beat-boxer and hip-hop artist and the Zohab Zee Khan’s travel to China is supported by –Amy McNeilage, Sydney Morning Herald current Australian Poetry Slam Champion. Zohab Australian Poetry Slam, has toured Asia, the Middle East and Europe to presented by Word Travels. ᐜ૾g⌳gށ⊍фᆜ⭕Ԣ䙐ᑮ൞ᆜṗ䠂ⵁ sell-out crowds. In 2014, he was a finalist in the International Poetry Slam in Madrid and was ࡦⲺՖ㔕ⲳӰ⭭ᙝ䈍ӰᇂޞуੂȾ chosen to participate in an artistic residency in ᚿ ቲ ݾ 傧 Პ ᣛ ↄ ⮱ ͚ ప – Amy McNeilage ٸ Dubai. Zohab is an educator, and founding director ጓ ৵ e ∪ e of Zee Poetics, an organisation that aims to inspire ͸ 㵹 ⩞ “Word Travels” ⮱ ⓠ ๔ ݖ χ 䄄 ܧ ᣕ a new generation of poets through personal ๔␎䉜ᚤᚕ䊋ߖ development and performance based workshops. AUSTRALIAN WRITERS WEEK 2 0 1 5 ⓠ ๔ ݖ χ ᪴ ႓ ক 2015 | 1 7 | 6 1 OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ Veteran journalist PAUL [His work] is distinguished for his broad and deep grasp of KELLY has commented on the inter-relationship of economics and political s hifts, and Australian politics, public his ability to place Australian domestic developmen ts into policy and international an international and historical context. affairs for four decades. He is Editor-at-Large of –journalists Samantha Trenoweth and Toby Creswell The Australian newspaper and appears each week on ࠥ࡟ⲺҜ⤢⢯㙂উ䏀θഖѰ֒㘻ሯ㔅⎄ૂ᭵⋱਎ौҁ䰪Ⲻ䘔䬷ީ㌱ Australian Agenda (Sky ᴿ⵶ᒵ⌑㙂␧ࡱⲺᣀᨗθᒬъԌ㜳൞ള䱻ૂ়ਨ㜂Ქсሯ◩ཝ࡟Ӑ News) and before that ള޻ਇኋ䘑㺂࠼᷆Ⱦ was a regular on Insiders (ABC TV) for nearly a –䇦㘻Samantha Trenoweth ૂToby Creswell decade. He is the author of seven books; the latest is Walkley Award-winning O n Triumph and Demise: In this latest account of the Triumph and Demise , in Rudd-Gillard years, he demonstrates rare skill in c apturing which he analyses the Rudd- intimate testimony from key players, while managing to Gillard-Rudd government stand back from the tumult to offer calm observatio n and from 2007 to 2013.