Professional Speaker

2007

Guest Speaker, The Society of Women Writers SA Inc, Adelaide, South Australia. Read part of a science fiction short story and spoke of the cultural value of imagining, then creating and preparing for the future.

Guest Speaker, WriteOn, a week of literary events sponsored by Unley Library as part of National Youth Week, Unley, South Australia. Gave a talk about writing speculative fiction for books and computer games and later that day held a workshop.

2006

Guest speaker, Williamstown Literary Festival, Williamstown, Victoria Australia. Gave the workshop "Victory: How to Finish a Novel" to a full house.

Invited panelist for Conjure, the 45th Australian National Science Fiction Convention, Brisbane, Queensland Australia. Spoke on copyright issues, Web publishing, and how to fairly and effectively draw from world cultures for innovative fantasy. Cory Doctorow shared some of these panels.

2005

Guest speaker at the Williamstown Literary Festival, Williamstown, Victoria Australia. Gave a workshop on "How to Create An Online Literary Zine" and spoke on a panel concerning "E-publishing - Is The Book Dead?".

2004

Speaker for The Age Melbourne Writers' Festival, Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Gave a talk entitled "World Wide Words: What's Hot in the World of Digizines" as part of the festival's umbrella program.

2002

Guest speaker, Melbourne Science Fiction Club, Brunswick, Victoria Australia. Spoke on world building for creative writing.

Guest speaker, Whitehorse Manningham Regional Library Corporation, Vermont South, Victoria Australia. Gave a talk entitled "Writing in a Sensual World".

2000

Workshop presenter, Victorian Writers' Centre, Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Presented a day long seminar on online writing and publication.

1999

Panel speaker for the Victoria State Library's Business Forum Series on electronic publication and commerce, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest on 3RRR radio to speak about the future of online media, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Invited speaker for the Content is Key conference held by the Australian Writers Guild, Melbourne, Victoria Australia. Spoke on writing and publishing for the Internet.

Invited speaker for Swinburne postgraduate course in electronic writing organised by Lisa Gye, Hawthorn, Victoria Australia.

1998

Invited speaker for the Australian Film Commission's Being Connected conference (refereed). My paper covered methods of structuring stories in the digital environment.

1997

Guest speaker for the Masters of Multimedia lecture series at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Panel speaker on writing for digital media at Crack the Binary Code, a conference in conjunction with the Interact exhibition (refereed), Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Panel speaker on writing for digital media at the Australian Teachers of Creative Writing conference, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest Speaker for the Australian Society of Technical Communicators, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest speaker on women in computing and the Internet for Women in Film and Television, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Panel head and organiser for papers on digital storytelling for the Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association conference (refereed), Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Panel speaker for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Creative Writing Department's literary lunch, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Panel speaker for Experimenta, an avant garde literary group, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest speaker for Society of Business Communicators, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest speaker for the Australian Society of Editors, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

1996

Delivered paper at the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association conference (refereed), Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Delivered paper Association for Computing Machinery Multimedia 96 (refereed), Boston, Massachusetts USA.

Interviewed by MSNBC about my work in digital media for US radio broadcast.

Participated in a debate sponsored by the Electronic Frontiers Australia at University of Melbourne concerning Internet censorship, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Interviewed by The Bookshow about literature and digital media for ABC TV, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest speaker for the Digital Aesthetics Conference, which was combined with the Language of Interactivity Conference run by the Australian Film Commision, Sydney, New South Wales Australia.

1995

Guest speaker for Seminars for Women in Management & Leadership organised by the Tasmanian Educational Consortium, Hobart & Launceston, Tasmania Australia.

Guest speaker for the Melbourne Writers' Festival giving a speech titled, "Playing in the MUD", Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest speaker for the AUUG '95 & Asia Pacific World Wide Web '95 Conference speaking on "You think This Is a Revolution, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", Sydney, New South Wales Australia.

Guest lecturer on publishing and the Internet at the Sapporo Hyperlab of the University of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Hokkaido Japan.

Guest speaker at The Second National Book Summit organised by the National Book Council speaking on "The Electronic Story", Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Interviewed by Beyond 2000 about online shopping for TV, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest Speaker at the national Meeting Industry Association conference, gave a general overview of the Internet and the software available for using it, Melbourne, Victoria Australia.

Guest Speaker at the national Dun & Bradstreet conference, gave a general overview of the Internet and the software available for using it, Gold Coast, Queensland Australia.

Guest Speaker at the Box Hill Library, gave a general overview of the Internet and the software available for using it, Box Hill, Victoria Australia.

Guest Speaker at Frankston TAFE, gave a general overview of the Internet and the software available for using it, Frankston, Victoria Australia.

1993

Creative Writing Speaker at the at the Rowville Public Library on writing and publishing fantasy and science fiction, Rowville, Victoria Australia.

1992

Creative Writing Speaker at the Renascent Festival, Warrandyte, Victoria Australia.

1991

Creative Writing Speaker at the Ballarat Rainbow Festival, Ballarat, Victoria Australia.

Creative Writing Speaker at the Box Hill Community Arts Centre, Box Hill, Victoria Australia.

1990

Creative Writing Speaker at the Ballarat Rainbow Festival, Ballarat, Victoria Australia.