home salon writing writers university of adelaide contact Women In Black Women in Black is an international peace network. Started in Israel in 1988 by Israeli and Palestinian women protesting the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Women in Black stand in silent vigil to protest war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic cleansing and human rights abuses all over the world. In 2001 the Women in Black movement was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. August Wordfire seeks to underline the presence of Women In Black in Adelaide. For more information on Women In Black click the following links: www.womeninblack.net www.womeninblack.org The winter readings continue, 7.00pm for 7.30pm on 6th August 2007 at the Crown & Sceptre, 308 King William Street. Details of the readers will appear below as they are confirmed: Professor Dorothy Driver Professor Driver she has published essays on a range of Southern African writers. She has also edited Professor Dorothy Driver and co-edited books by and on Pauline Smith, Nadine Gordimer and has provided numerous entries to literary encyclopedias, most notably the Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, where she was responsible for the substantial South African section. Her current research interests include land and landscape in colonial and postcolonial literature, post-apartheid writing, conjunctures and disjunctures between feminist and postcolonial theories, and literature dealing with truth, reconciliation, memory, forgiveness, and shame. She is also developing an interest in comparative studies of Australian and South African literature. Steve Brock Steve lives in Adelaide with his wife and daughter. He has lived Steve Brock and travelled widely in South America, and has published his poetry and translations from the Spanish in a range of journals. In 2003 Steve completed a PhD in Australian literature at Flinders University. His first collection of poems, the night is a dying dog, is published in Friendly Street New Poets 12. Steve recently translated an anthology of Mapuche poets from Chile with Juan Garrido Salgado. Juan Garrido-Salgado Juan Garrido-Salgado Juan Garrido-Salgado was born in Chile and was a political prisoner under the Pinochet regime. He now lives in Adelaide. He has published three books in Australia and one in Chile under the name Samuel Lafferte. His latest book is Unmoving Navigator Who Fell In Love With The Ocean's Darkness, translated by Peter Boyle, Picador Press, 2006. Poets that have influenced Juan include Pablo Neruda, Roque Dalton, Federico Garcia Lorca, Sergei Esenin, Vicente Huidobro and Gabriela Mistral. Juan used to love writing after midnight with a glass of wine or maté (made from the dried leaves of the evergreen tree Ilex paraguariensis), but now prefers to write during the morning. Janet Harrow Jan Harrow Jan Harrow has worked as a baton-twirling teacher, a babysitter, a waitress, a bartender, a home-ec teacher, an editor, brochure designer, fundraiser, high school English teacher and University Lecturer. She moved to Adelaide in 2001 to complete her first novel. She is now the convenor of the M.A. programme in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. She finished her novel. Carol Lefevre Carol Lefevre Carol is a second year PhD student at Adelaide University. She has published freelance writing and photography in both Europe and Australia. Her first novel Nights in the Asylum was published in 2007 by Picador UK & Random House Australia. Carol's website is www.carollefevre.com Jude Aquilina Jude's poetry has been published in newspapers and literary journals across Australia and in the UK and US. She has published two collections of poetry with Wakefield Press: Knifing the Ice in 2000 and On a moon spiced night in 2004. In 2005, Jude was a poetry partner for Coriole Winery, where she wrote poems for their labels. She is the Office Manager at the SA Writers' Centre and is currently working on a poetry project titled WomanSpeak funded by Arts SA. Shannon Burns Shannon is a Ph.D candidate in the English Discipline at the University of Adelaide. He has been published here and there, but only by people who know him. Which is a bad, bad sign. Poster for the August 2007 Salon Top