Speakers 2004

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December 2004:	CHRISTMAS BREAK

November 2004:	ANNA WARWICK Anna Warwick wrote stories as a child, one of which was used on Here’s Humphrey and Mulligrubs. She has a BA at UNSW in Theatre, Film and English Lit., and has studied acting. She has also studied screenwriting at UTS, and completed a Masters in Writing. Anna started her own email newsletter about dating and romance in 2000. In May this year her first book `101 Dates’ was published. She has freelanced for magazines as well as copywriting on the web and worked on the Big Brother website. She is currently working at Wildfire magazines as Managing Editor.

October 2004:	JAMES BRADLEY James Bradley was born in 1967. Twice one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists, he is the author of two novels, Wrack and The Deep Field, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, which was shortlisted for the Australian National Book Council’s "Banjo" Award, and the editor of Blur, a collection of stories by young Australian writers. Wrack won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Literature Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. The Deep Field won The Age Fiction Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the inaugural Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award, the Aurealis Best Novel Award (Science Fiction category) and the Adelaide Festival’s National Fiction Award. Both novels have been published overseas and have been widely translated.