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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ཝᝅཌȾ
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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
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哜ށ㾵ቲg䍓ᐪgށށᱥжփ⍱䏹൞◩ཝ 㺬 ᅩ Ӑ㡔ਦȽ⭫ਦૂཝ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◩ཝӐᖉԙᮽᆜ⮂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 ൞֖Ⲻᗹ༺◶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
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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⭫ᖧ֒Ӱθᴴ㧭䗽ཐ〃ྌ亯ȾԌሯѣӐૂ㖍ᯥ Ⲻ 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⋵ਬ ቲດ⋩サ 䗽㾵եӐ ࡦ䗴्ߦ⍁ Ⱦ㪸 ᴶ㪍Ⲻ ぁᱥԌ ⋵ –Dervla Murphy ᡆਿᙓ⊍ Ⲻ䏩䘯 䘑㺂Ⲻж ⅗়ᰬпᒪθ Ԅ㫏ਚࡦा ⢏䐞䏀6000 㤧䠂Ⲻ 傢㜂㺂Ⱦ䘏 ᱥ ж⅗ѰҼ ޛ⨼䀙 Ӑ⅝ཝ㥿傢㜂р Ⲻ⑮⢝≇ᰅ Ⲻ᧘㍘ҁȾɅ䘳䳅ᡆਿᙓ⊍ Ⲻ䏩䘯 Ɇ 㪸gᇽᲤᱥжѠᴿᲰឝⲺᒪ䖱Ӱθ⸛䚉ྸԛѰ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
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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 ൞ђӐ㺂ᰬθᐹ劷ށgᡪ㔪ᯥᢉ⭫䈓ഔᇬθপᗍ⸛ྯⲺ∃Ө൞ж൰シྸެᶛⲺ䖜⾮ѣѝ ⭕Ⱦ䘊ഔࡦぁѣθྯૂྯⲺժ䘑㺂Ҽ䮵䈾ȾժⲺ⡬Өഖ㖯ᛙⲂ⯽㙂ེེжᚥθњӰ ଣθᒬѰҁᖟⲺቅ䈪Ⱦ 䈾Ҽᛨ՚Ⱦ䘏жᰬᵕⲺㅊ䇦։⧦Ҽњ〃༦丩φжѠᱥቅྩᆟθݻ┗Ҽ㜳䠅ૂᑂᵑθপ᮪ཟ ᜩ↱ӗχਜжѠᱥрҼᒪ㓠ⲺྩӰθᳪ䒷৾䘭㥡θж⛯ҕуᝅҼ䀙↱ӗȾᐹ劷ށⲺㅢж –Sarah Rigby, 㤧ള࠰⡾Ӱ ᵢҜɅ䘭ཧфਇ⧦Ɇቧ䘏ṭӝ⭕ҼȾ䘏ᱥྯ൞㾵◩ཝӐ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.
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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 ᴿᒵ⌑㙂ࡱⲺᣀᨗθᒬъԌ㜳൞ള䱻ૂ়ਨ㜂Ქсሯ◩ཝӐ News) and before that ളਇኋ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. reflections on politics and the nation. This is an outstanding work of journalism as history from one of our fines t writers and thinkers.
㖍gࠥᱥжփ䍺䇦㘻θॷᒪᶛжԄӁ◩ཝؓ Paul Kelly travels to –Walkley Award judges’ report Ӑ᭵⋱Ƚޢާ᭵ㆌૂള䱻ӁࣗⲺ䇺䇰ȾԌᱥɅ◩ཝӐ China courtesy of the Walkley Foundation ӰᣛɆⲺ㠠⭧ふӰθᒬъ∅ઞ䜳৸ࣖSky News ཟグ⭫ ީӄɅ㜒ф↱ӗɆ ൞ሯ䱼ށᮽਿᗭᢝ᭵ᰬᵕⲺ䇦ᖋѣθԌኋ 㿼ਦⲺAustralian Agenda 㢸ⴤȾ൞↚ҁࢃԌᴴᤷ㔣ॷ ⧦Ҽ൞ᦋީ䭤Ӱ⢟㓼㠪ⵕᇔⲺ㺞⧦Ⲻੂᰬ䎻䏀㓭ҧሯ᭵⋱ૂളᇬ ਮ⭫㿼ਦⲺInsiders 㢸ⴤȾ 䘑㺂߭䶏Ⲻ㿸ሕૂᙓ㘹Ⲻ䎻ࠗ㜳࣑Ⱦ䘏ᱥж䜞⭧ᡇԢᴶՎ⿶Ⲻ֒ᇬޢᒪᇐᵕ৸ф◩ཝӐᒵ Ԍ࠰⡾䗽йᵢҜȾᴶ䘇Ⲻ֒Ʌ㜒ф↱ӗɆ㧭ᗍҼ⊹ ૂᙓᜩᇬҁжࡑ֒Ⲻ᯦䰱়ਨⲺՎ⿶֒Ⱦ ݖ ⮱ ͚ ప 㵹 ܜ ྌȾԌ൞䘏ᵢҜѣ࠼᷆Ҽ ᒪ㠩 ᒪᵕ䰪Ⲻ Ԋ 㒄 eށ ݖ ധ 䛾 ᚤ ᚕ 䊋 ߖ ٸ ↰ ⩞ 2013 2007 䱼ށᮽਿᗭ䱼ށᮽ᭵ᓒȾ –⊹ށྌ䇺ညᣛ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, 2012
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A writer of extraordinary range and imagination. JENNIFER MILLS is the author of the novels Gone and The Diamond Anchor and the short story collection The Rest is Weight , which was shortlisted for –Cate Kennedy the Queensland Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her writing explores themes of place, genre and politics and she is currently working on a novel, Dyschronia , tackling жѠ㜳ཕ䐞䏀〃亼ตȽᤛᴿউ䏀ᜩ䊗࣑Ⲻ֒ᇬĂ climate change and the perception of time. Jennifer is the fiction editor at Overland literary journal and now lives in Beijing. –Cate Kennedy OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺ OUR AUTHORS ҉ უ ϸ ㏺
DAMON YOUNG is a philosopher and writer who is an Honorary Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and founding faculty with the School of Life. He has written extensively for print and online and is a frequent radio commentator, garnering him the AAP media prize. His nonfiction books consider the intersection of philosophy and gardens, exercise and thought, and distraction in the modern age, and have been widely translated. His latest books, My Nanna is a Ninja and My Pop is a Pirate , take him to a new Philosophy in the Garden is not a book written for philosophers; it is too audience: children. Damon has broadly charming and brisk for that. What it is, ho wever, is a thoughtful also played a Mafia thug in a invitation to a wide readership to drink from a phi losophical cup… Young’s Jackie Chan film. brew is beautifully blended, revealing from its fir st sip a light, rich texture and a caffeinated tingle of ideas.
–Newtown Review of Books
Ʌ㣧ണ䠂ⲺନᆜɆуᱥߏ㔏ନᆜᇬⲺҜθഖѰᆹའᴿ䏙Ƚའ⍱⌲ҼȾਃθᆹᱥжѠ㋴ жᶥᇂ㗄䈹܅ᗹ֒Ⲻ䚶䈭࠳θ䚶䈭ᒵཝⲺ䈱㘻ቓନᆜ䘏ᶥ⭎䞽Ⲻ䞈Ⱦ䗴㫏ⲺҜቧ Ⲻ䞈θਠ㾷жਙθቧ㜳ࡦᆹ䖱⳾㙂৾ѦሂⲺ䍞ૂжѓૂⲺᙓᜩࡰⰑȾ
– Newtown Ҝ䇺