Author, Kittyman. This novel is part of a series of magic realist novels for young adults.
Poet, Melbourne Fringe Festival: Babble Poetry Open Mic Competition. On 6 October the judges of the Babble Poetry Open Mic Competition awarded my spoken word performance entitled "Lipstick".
Author, Making Waves. This novel is part of a series of magic realist novels for young adults.
Contributor, Screenwriting: A Manual, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Victoria Australia & New York, USA. Story shapes depiction used in section on writing for multimedia.
Author, Odysseus, She, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. A hyper-novel demonstrating the methods used to effectively write for digital media.
Author, Storytronics: Booting the Binary Bard, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. My thesis on the background and methods of writing for digital media.
Contributing Editor, A Teacher's Guide to the Internet: The Australian Experience, Reed Books, Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Wrote the introductory chapter and material for inside chapters.
Author, Surf's Up: Internet Australian Style, Reed Books, Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Upon release this book sold out in the first two weeks and has had two reprints and overseas sales. The book included a CD-ROM of Web sites to explore. April 1996 a New Zealand edition was released and also sold out in the first couple of weeks. In relationship to the book and Glass Wings I was interviewed by MSN-NBC US national radio show, Between the Lines (TV), Beyond 2000 (TV), ABC radio numerous times, Radio Australia, 3AW, The Age newspaper, The Australian newspaper, Business Review Weekly magazine, Financial Review newspaper, Australian Way magazine, Time magazine and more.
Contributing Editor, AD State Journal. Wrote short story, "Legacy" (June 1991).
Contributing Editor, Kaleidoscoptics. Wrote short story "Greetings" (Vol. 2 issue 3, June 1989).
Playwright, University of Washington. Wrote and had staged reading with professional and student actors for Anywhere You're Dying to Be.
Playwright, University of Washington. Wrote and had staged reading with professional and student actors for Rose Colored Glass.
Mentorships. Studied privately with Sam Green (poet), Charles Johnson (novelist, screenwriter, 1990 American National Book Award winner, PEN/Faulkner award winner, MacArthur Foundation genius grant recipient, Guggenheim fellow; former student of John Gardner, author of Grendel), Joanna Russ (several time Hugo and Nebula award winning short story and novel writer, former student of Nabokov) Lois Hudson (novelist, awarded an honorary doctor of letters degree for her contributions to American literature and her distinguished career as an educator), and Jack Dann (author, editor, Nebula award winner).
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