home salon writing writers university of adelaide contact October 2008 The October 2008 Wordfire was held on Monday the 13th, another fine evening of poetry and prose. As usual the venue was be the Red Room, Crown & Sceptre, 308 King William Street, Adelaide. Details of the readers appear below. Amelia Walker Amelia began performing spoken word when she was 16. Now 24, she runs writing workshops for schools and community groups. Her poetry has been published in Norway, Canda, the USA, the UK, NZ, Australia and online, and she performed at the 2008 World Poetry Festival in Kolkata, India. Heather Sladdin Stuart Heather Sladdin Stuart has worked in Marketing, Recruitment and Publishing. In recent years she has been lecturing in Managing Communication in Business and Media Literacies at South Australian Institute of Business and Technology. She is currently doing a PhD in Creative Writing at Adelaide University. Pablo Muslera Pablo's currently studying writing at Uni SA (Bachelor of Writing and Creative Communication). He was a resident poet in the glory days of the Cargo Club and has read at the Poetry and Poetics Centre, the Exeter's Sunday Side Up and Poets Against Racism ate the Adelaide Writer's Centre. His writing has featured in On Dit, postgraduate agrarian publication The Greenhouse and Feast poetry and prose compilation. His short horror story 'Ahlana' was described as 'a cross between the X files and Edgar Allen Poe', and earned him second prize in the Wannabee short story competition (he calculates the rate for writing it at $30 per hour). In between work and study, he's currently neglecting the first draft of a modern gothic novel set in Edinburgh. A love of scottish rock band Del Amitri took him there last year for 'research'. Roxxy Bent Roxxy Bent has worked as a writer and script editor for television and on corporate videos and was one of the creative team and main writer for the award winning series 'House Gang', a ground breaking comedy drama featuring actors with disabilities for SBS, Film Australia and Channel 4 that sold in many territories around the world.  She was a founding member of Vitalstatistix National Women's Theatre has written for theatre, having 11 of her plays produced, written extensively for community theatre projects, touring nationally to schools, colleges, prisons,  isolated country areas, covering a diverse range of subjects. She has been a feature writer for magazines, was winner of the Harper Collins, Scarlet Stiletto for best short crime fiction 2002 & 2006. Her community writing project 'Now and Then', an Arts in Health initiative, culminated in an exhibition currently on view at Flinders Medical Centre. She is writing a novel as part of her PhD in creative writing at Adelaide University. Kami Kami has two novellas out - "S.F. & T." and "Bunk Beds & Chilli Vodka - A Drunk Poet's Guide To A Writer's Festival" (Paroxysm Press) His poetry has appeared in various anthologies and journals over the years, most recently in Ten Years Of Things That Didn't Kill Us (Paroxysm Press 2008) as well as small press zines such as BP, Blue Giraffe, Beer Swill Romanticism, Juke Box (US), CP Journal (US), Heroin Love Songs (US) whilst short stories have appeared in US journal Metal Scratches as well as the Waste anthology (Paroxysm Press)and Blood (Sunday Drivers). He's performed (on and off stage) in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle and won the odd slam here and there. He's written about pubs for Ralph magazine and boxing for People. He is a semi-professional redneck lounger. Jill Jones Jill Jones won the 1993 Mary Gilmore Award for The Mask and the Jagged Star and the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize for Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems. Her most recent books are Broken/Open (Salt 2005) and a handwritten 'tiny' Speak Which (Meritage Press, 2007). Before coming to teach in Adelaide, she worked in a number of different fields over the years: legal publishing, journalism, government information, public policy and arts administration. Her most recent position was as Program Manager for the Literature Board of the Australia Council. She has collaborated with photographer Annette Willis on a number of projects. Her poems have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish. In 2007 she was a featured reader at the 23rd Festival International de la Poésie in Trois-Rivières, Canada. She keeps a regular blog at Ruby Street rubystreet.blogspot.com and a website at www.jilljones.com.au Top