home salon writing writers university of adelaide contact Salon Events... The November wordfire literary salon was held on the 6th November 2006 at 7.00pm in the Crown & Sceptre, King Wiliam Street, Adelaide. The readers were: Peter Goldsworthy Peter Goldsworthy has won major literary awards across a variety of genres: short story, poetry, the novel, and opera. Peter Goldsworthy Peter Goldsworthy grew up in various Australian country towns finishing his schooling in Darwin in the Northern Territory. Since graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide, he has divided his working time between general practice and writing. His best-selling novels have been translated into many European and Asian languages. His first novel Maestro has recently been reissued as part of the Angus & Robertson Australian Classics series. It is currently in development as a movie, as is Honk If You Are Jesus . His novels Wish, Honk If You Are Jesus, and Three Dog Night are also being adapted for the stage, the first of these, Honk, to be premiered by the State Theatre of South Australia in its 2006 season. Among his numerous literary awards are the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the FAW Christina Stead Award, and the Australian Bicentennial Literary Prize for Poetry in 1988. His New Selected Poems has recently been published in Australia and the UK; his Collected Stories appeared in Australia in 2004. His poetry has been set to music by leading Australian composers including Graeme Koehne, Richard Mills, and Matthew Hindson. He wrote the libretti for the Richard Mills operas, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Batavia, the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 Robert Helpmann Awards for Best Opera and Best New Australian Work. Its next season will be in Sydney, 2006. Peter Goldsworthy's website is at www.petergoldsworthy.com 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. Phillip Edmonds Philip Edmonds Doctor Phillip Edmonds is a Lecturer of English at Adelaide University and Co- Managing Editor of Wet Ink, South Australia's premiere magazine of new writing. He has been editor of a number of prestigious publications, and had his work published in journals including Overland, Meanjin and Text. Two collections of his short stories, Don't Let Me Fall and Big Boys, have been published, and he is currently working on a third. Amy Matthews Amy T Matthews is crawling (broken and bleeding) to the end of her PhD in Creative Writing. Her novel, End of the Night Girl, was recently long-listed for the 2006 Australian/Vogel literary award. She has co-edited two short story collections, is currently teaching Film Studies and European Film at the University of Adelaide and is expecting her second child. So not very busy really. Shannon Burns Shannon is editor of Staples, a paper and staples publication of creative & critical writing, & has an unfashionable fetish for C20th German & French philosophers & theorists. He believes Thomas Pynchon's upcoming novel will be the literary equivalent of the new Messiah, & is prepared to jelly-wrestle with any & all doubters. Nicola Haywood Nicola Haywood Nicola Haywood has been writing literary fiction for quite a few years and loves writers such as Jack Kerouac and the Beats. This year she has been involved with the Salisbury writers festival. 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. 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. Juan will be selling copies of Unmoving Navigator Who Fell In Love With The Ocean's Darkness for five dollars and his Collected Poems for eighteen dollars. Top