home salon writing writers university of adelaide contact Fringe Wordfire 2009 Other Voices, Other Rooms: What other rooms do we explore through the texts we read and write, translate and perform? For one night only emerging and established writers and performers will be holding an Open House, conducting tours of the dark corners, airy spaces and secret places that words have led them into. As usual the venue will be the Red Room, Crown & Sceptre, 308 King William Street, Adelaide - from 7.00pm Details of the readers appear below: Tessa Leon Since winning Queensland's Poetry Unearthed competition in 2007 Tessa has performed regularly as a spoken word artist throughout Australia. She was awarded the People's Choice Award at the Performance Poetry World Cup and went on to appear at the Brisbane Writer's Festival, The Queensland Poetry Festival and Woodford Folk Festival. She later joined the Outsiders collective, co-ordinating monthly poetry and music events in Brisbane, and launched her cabaret trio 'The Moonshine Co-operative'. More recently she was mistress of ceremonies at the Writers Fringe in Brisbane and has been working with the State Library of Qld to host heats for last year's Australia Slam and facilitate workshops in spoken word. She has no current aspirations to professional publication and fancies herself a modern pioneer of literary cannibalism. Sean Williams Sean writes full-time from his home in the Adelaide CBD, likes to cook curries, and DJs in his spare time.  His current projects include a sexy space opera and a dark fantasy series for children, both due to be published in 2007. Sean's excellent website is here. Jenny Toune Jenny 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 has only been writing for the past four years - so definitely considers herself an "L" plate poet. She has had her work published in the last two Friendly Street Readers, Paroxysm Press's Ten Years of Things That Didn't Kill Us, and Uni SA's publication Poems in Perspex - the Max Harris Poetry Award 2007. Alternating between the rhythms of tap-dance and the rhythms of poetry, Jenny sometimes finds herself craving silence. When not writing or running 'tap jams', she is encouraging kids in the art of dance. Shannon Burns Shannon Burns grew up in Adelaide and has lived there all his life. He is married and has a son. Michelle Aung Thin Michelle Aung Thin has published short fiction and won awards for a short film scripts as well as her work as an advertising copywriter. She is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide and working on a novel set in 1930s Rangoon. Alice Sladdin A M Sladdin, a Friendly Street Poet, won Adelaide University's 2005 Bundey Prize for one of her MA poems and is undertaking a Phd novel. She operates a gallery-bookshop in Saddleworth, en route to the Clare wine district. Anna Solding Anna has had short stories published in a variety of literary journals and collections. Over the years, she has co-edited the collection Cracker!, the magazine Wet Ink and the live literary journal Animate Quarterly. In 2007 she finally finished her PhD in Creative Writing. She was awarded a LongLines mentorship at Varuna, the Writers' House, to develop her second novel manuscript which went on to be shortlisted for the HarperCollins Varuna Award and the Penguin Scholarship. In 2008 she was one of the judges of the HarperCollins Varuna Award and she received an Arts SA grant to attend a writers' conference in Sweden. In her spare time she has also produced a couple of beautiful children. But she is still really looking forward to one day seeing her novels in the book shops. Rachel Hennick Rachel was born in Baltimore, US. She is widely traveled and has worked in radio, the arts and the healthcare industries. Her short stories have appeared in The Australian Women's Book Review, Island and on Radio 5UV's Arts Breakfast. She is the recipient of The ArtsSA Prize in Creative Writing, 2004. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Adelaide and has just completed a biographical memoir about an American ghetto. Top