home salon writing writers university of adelaide contact APRIL 2010 Details of the readers who appeared at the wordfire salon on Monday 19th April 2010 can be read below. David Sornig David is a writer originally from Melbourne now based in Adelaide where he lectures in creative writing at Flinders University. His fiction, non-fiction and criticism have appeared in Griffith Review, New Matilda, Antipodes, The Age and elsewhere. In 2008 he was awarded the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. His novel Spiel (UWAP, 2009) follows an architect's apocalyptically charged journey through Melbourne and Berlin. He is writing a follow-up about a family at the coalface of climate change. He sometimes updates his blog at davidsornig.wordpress.com Teri Louise Kelly Teri is the author of two memoirs Sex,Knives & Bouillabaisse & Last Bed On Earth, she has recently released the poetry anthology Girls Like Me, a tome which is being Bukowski-fied in US journals. Her next full-length memoir entitled American Blow Job is due for release in 2010 in e-copy by Open Books (Corfu) & in tree copies by Paroxysm Press (Adelaide), Golden Gate (USA), & Hardcore (Germany). She has a random snippet book entitled 50000 Watts of Silence (A Collection of Anecdotes, Poetry & Leftovers) also due for e-release this year. She read (poetry) in 2008 in Bristol (UK) and has since read in Melbourne, Sydney & Hobart. Her work, both prose and verse has been regularly published globally over the past three years. She is pretty much a non-believer, writes full time and is learning to play a pretty mean bass guitar. See YouTube video of Teri reading at this wordfire by clicking here. Phillipa Fioretti Phillipa was born in Sydney and studied Humanities, Visual Arts and Museum Studies and went on to work and exhibit as a printmaker, as well as teaching part time at tertiary level. She currently writes fiction full time and was selected for participation in the 2008 Hachette Australia/ Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program. Her first novel, The Book of Love, is being published by Hachette Australia in April 2010, with the sequel, The Fragment of Dreams to follow in 2011.   Phillipa is married with two children and likes sugar, reading, movies and lots of sleep. To go to Phillipa's website click www.phillipafioretti.com.au Rebekah Clarkson Rebekah has worked as a policy officer in ATSIC and the Prime Minister's Department, in public relations and as a freelance journalist. Her short fiction, articles and poetry have been published in journals, magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She is a past winner and runner up of the HQ magazine/Varuna short story competition. She is working on a collection of short stories towards a PhD in creative writing at Adelaide University. Kate Deller-Evans Form chooses its target, and Kate can’t shake poetry. Author of Coming into the World (reprinted 2007), her first collection, Travelling with Bligh, appeared in Friendly Street’s New Poets 7. Her latest published poem On leaving a job, charts her abandonment of academic tenure and her flight from coordinating ACA’s Professional Writing. With her PhD scholarship spent, she funds her verse novel studies by lecturing engineers. You could buy one of her recent books - Essential Skills for Science and Technology (OUP) or her history of a famous Adelaide institution, Best of Friends, (Wakefield Press, co-authored by Steve Evans)-or just come hear her read. Vaisnavi Vaisnavi has lived in London, Melbourne, Paris, Copenhagen, New Delhi, Elizabeth, and, for several years, Braj, home of the blue God, Krishna. She was a Chaitanya Vaishnav nun for twenty years during which time she performed precise temple rituals, taught children, and restricted her reading to transliterations and translations of visionary and epic Sanskrit and Bengali scripture and poetry. She's now working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. Katherine Arguile Katherine was born in Japan to an English father and Japanese mother. Educated in Tokyo, Hamburg, Yorkshire, California, Cambridge and London, she has led an itinerant life. Her most enduring domicile was London, which she left in 2008 after 18 years to emigrate to Australia. She has written short stories and partial novels for over thirty years. In 2009 she exposed her fiction to public view for the first time, submitting a piece to the Momaya Press Short Story Competition. It won 1st prize and publication in the publisher's 2009 anthology. Encouraged by this she is now exposing her work all over the place and is writing a novel as part of her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. Top