home salon writing writers university of adelaide contact Salon Events... Wordfire Fringe event on 12 March 2007: people packed the Crown & Sceptre like the proverbial sardines, as dressing gowns were cast aside and all was revealed in a series of amazing readings and performance poetry. Exquisite Corpse contributions from the audience resulted in two small poems which can be accessed here, along with a few snaps of the event. From all the Wordfire crew, au revoir.... Max Anderson Max Anderson is a writer. Max Anderson He would rather be a gold prospector (and spent six months in an outback town of 13 struggling to be just that) but words come easier to him than the yellow stuff. It's fair to say his book Digger is the ultimate dirty book. His more respectable incarnations include Travel Editor of Ansett's in-flight mag and Deputy Travel Editor for London's Sunday Times . He lives in the Adelaide Hills with patient wife and irrepressible twin rodents. He likes pubs. Lyndall Clipstone Lyndall completed her Honours in Creative Writing in 2006. Lyndall Clipstone She is looking forward to starting her PhD in English this year at Adelaide Uni. In her work she likes to explore themes of life in suburbia, european cinema and rocknroll. As well as writing, she watches too many films, and reads a lot of trashy novels from the local library. She is also a not-so-secret computer game addict. Click here to visit Lyndall's website. 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 has been inspired to write a new poem for this event. Alice Sladdin Alice Sladdin A M Sladdin, a Friendly Street Poet, won Adelaide University's 2005 Bundey Prize for one of her M A poems and is undertaking a Phd novel. She operates a gallery-bookshop in Saddleworth, en route to the Clare wine district. Indigo Indigo Idealistic Indigo idolises illustrious illuminations in illogical imagery. Imperceptible instruments ignite idle identity illusions. Imperfection is imminent, irresistible, it's iconic. Irrepressible invocations immerse into ice- capped imagination, iridescently interflowing into immortal independence. Indivisible, I inherit interplanetary instruction. I invent I. Henry Ashley-Brown Henry Ashley-Brown Henry has had all sorts of jobs, including working for the Immigration Department, where he learnt how to pronounce names, met huge numbers of fascinating people from other countries and discovered food that wasn't three vegies and two chops. He also worked with the CSIRO in Canberra and met some very creative scientists who encouraged him to be logical. In the evenings he attended the Australian National University and studied literature in classes that were very small and conducted by inspirational teachers such as A.D Hope, R.F. Brissenden, and Tom Inglis Moore.   He's also been a teacher and a counsellor and dabbled in debating and sculpture.  Currently he's re-engaging with writing. John De Laine 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. Anna Solding Anna Solding Anna Solding is always busy writing. During the past five years, while working on her PhD thesis in creative writing, Anna has had short stories published in a variety of literary journals and collections as well as being awarded the odd prize for her writing. She has co-edited the collection Cracker!, the magazine Wet Ink and the live literary journal Animate Quarterly. Earlier this year she was awarded a LongLines mentorship at Varuna, the Writers' House to develop her second novel manuscript. In her spare time she has also produced a couple of beautiful children. But she hasn't quite managed to finish her PhD yet. Gemma Parker Gemma Parker Gemma Parker is a 23 year old pool shark. She likes volcanoes, physics and mascara. Kerryn Tredrea Kerryn Tredrea i am an adelaide poet and spoken word tourist. publishing credits include paroxysm press anthologies "shotgun" and "fingers and tongues", best australian poems 2006, vernacular, sidewalk, recessive type 3, friendly st. readers, releasing my first book "adventures in captivity" in 2004 through paroxysm press. apparently im also available to download from the ch 31 (melb) red lobster website (click here to go to the website). i like my poems to have a short attention span and sharp edges Jenny Toune Jenny Toune Jenny Toune was a professional dancer for fifteen years before moving back home to Adelaide to become a Dance Educator. Her specialty is Rhythm Tap, and she tries to travel annually to New York or Melbourne to teach and participate in their International Tap Festivals. She became hooked on the rhythms of poetry three years ago, and last year finally braved the crowds at the SA Writers' Centre to become a Friendly Street reader. She is currently studying for the Advanced Diploma of Professional Writing at TAFE. Her ambition is to be the first tap dancing poet to perform at the Edinburgh Festival. Jessica Sabatini Jessica Sabatini & Friends A special fringe performance from Jessica Sabatini, with Isabelle da Sylveira and Marie-Therese McInerny, accompanied by music/sound from Pavlos Soteriou. Top