home salon writing writers university of adelaide contact Salon Events... The 4th September 2006 Salon was held at 7.00pm in the Crown & Sceptre, King Wiliam Street, Adelaide. The readers were: Jane Turner Goldsmith. Jane is a psychologist and teacher who has had her short stories and poetry commended in competitions. Jane Turner Goldsmith She spent four years in New Caledonia in the late eighties and her first novel Poinciana, though fictional, is based on true events she experienced during that time. Poinciana is published by Wakefield Press and was launched at Adelaide Writer's Week in March, 2006. Jane's children's novel "Gone Fishing" was published in June 2005 with Macmillan Education. Current projects include editing an anthology of stories written by adoptive parents, (forthcoming, Wakefield Press). Jane lives in the Adelaide Hills with her husband and three boys (and obligatory old black dog and cat). There is a link to a review of Poinciana from The Bulletin here. Malcolm Walker Malcolm Walker Malcolm is a part-time teacher and lecturer in English and Film at the University of Adelaide, where he is in the last stages of a PhD. In an ideal world he would spend a third of his time living on the Welsh Marches, a third in South Australia and the other half travelling. Never a maths prodigy, he once recorded zero out of 100 for an algebra test; naturally, his Doctorate is not in quantum physics. His young-adult novel The Stone Crown, due to be published in mid-2007, is his first. Malcolm's website is at www.malcolmwalker.com G.M. Walker G M Walker, author of blue woman published by BookEnds Books, has been writing and performing at spoken word events in Adelaide for over 10 years. She was guest poet for May 2006 in Graham Catt's blog Nausea at www.grahamcatt.blogspot.com and scroll down the page. There is a review by Rob Walker (no relation) of blue woman at www.users.bigpond.com/robwalker1 see date 25/04/06 Also featured in Friendly Street's Gallery of Poets at www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au Joshua Nash & Jason Sweeney Joshua Nash & Jason Sweeney to enlarge wOURgOURn (English: wagon, Danish: vogn), Jason Sweeney (jbs) and Joshua Nash (jxn), met in 1996 and began their illustrious creative ventures in music and words in 1999. Their experiments in internet writing, sound, emotional and relational risk, Spirituality and Time-Space-Distance existence has informed and evolved a corpus of wOURk (read: work) driven by an incessant striving after/for the subtleties in/of Life and Love. wOURgOURn, US, It, OUR, WE and the substitution of vOURwels for Joy and Pain is what makes jbs and jxn what they are today: blOURd brOURthOURs. Ray Liversidge Ray Liversidge Ray Liversidge was born in the same year Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China, The Lone Ranger first appeared on American TV, and ‘Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ was the hit song of the year in Australia. His first collection of poems, Obeying the Call, was published by Ginninderra Press in March 2003, and was described by Island magazine as ‘writing of a high order, reminding us of poetry’s origins in ceremony and its ability to name and locate experience’ - for more, take a look at his website by clicking here. Carol Lefevre Carol Lefevre Carol is a first year PhD student at Adelaide University. She is a regular contributor to SA Life Magazine and has published freelance writing and photography in both Europe and Australia. In 2005, a non-fiction piece was published by Granta in the anthology Family Wanted. Her first novel Nights in the Asylum will be published in 2007 by Picador UK & Random House Australia. Carol's website is www.carollefevre.com Helen Mitchell Helen has had a variety of careers in both public and private sectors. She has also been a counsellor, a motivator and taught yoga and stress management for Helen Mitchell many years. Her last 'proper job' was teaching business studies. Helen's writing ambitions were on hold while pursuing these occupations, but since completing Honours and MA in Creative Writing at Adelaide University, she considers herself to be a 'born again' writer - she can no longer ignore the nagging characters hanging around in her head until they've taken life on the page. Helen's literary passion is studies of seventeenth century England and she is currently working on the skeleton of a novel placed in that time. Helen says she's not much of a cook but she can do a mean foot massage. John De Laine John has been writing since 1995. He likes many things, some of which include 1980s music, the Tour de France, Jacques Tati films and blood red sunsets. Past jobs include a five year stint as a textile worker, a diabolical seven months as a bank junior, and a lean three years as a Centrelink casual, culling old files as if they were koalas. Bernadette Smith Bernadette Smith Bern moved from Melbourne to Adelaide at the start of the year (2006) to do Honours in Creative Writing. Currently agonising over honours thesis. Themes in prose: gender, sub-culture, self-definition. Heather Taylor Johnson Heather Taylor Johnson Heather Taylor Johnson came to Adelaide to become a student of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. Seven years later and she's still here, still a student at the University of Adelaide. She now has an Aussie man and two little Aussie boys so she feels pretty Australian herself. She is one of the poetry editors for Wet Ink and, though she'll be here to read poetry on the night, she's most proud of her publications and short-listing pats on the back for her prose. Top