More about our readers at the Wheatsheaf in Sept

Helen Dinmore Helen Dinmore recently graduated with a first in Honours from the Creative Writing program at Flinders. You can read her short fiction in this month's edition of Wet Ink, this December's edition of Island and in the March edition of Overland next year.


Neil Philbey Many years ago, Neil made an unsuccessful attempt to conquer world-wide evil and establish why some kangaroos jumped in front of trucks while others didn’t. Recognising the need for more education in order to fulfil his destiny, he waited patiently until he could sneak into the BCA course at Flinders without anyone noticing. In the meantime, he hitchhiked to Perth, towed a caravan to Darwin, and drove a backhoe to Yankalilla to interview suspects in the theft of Kevin Rudd’s personality.Neil is currently doing Creative Writing Honours, and will probably sneak out of Flinders at the end of the year without anyone noticing.

Jaqui Lawson Jacqui Lawson is a first year BCA Creative Writing student. It took her 5 years of working and backpacking to finally realise she wanted to write. She's hadone short story published.

Mario Pilla

Mario Pilla is a first year BCA (Creative Writing) student. He still hasn't done very much, aside from that.

Samuel Williams

Samuel is a first year student in the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing). He's been an avid reader ever since he first learned to read, and grew up on the likes of Emily Rodda and Harry Potter. Now, he'll read just about anything, and at the moment likes to write just about anything, too. In particular, he loves tweaking real world scenarios to make them just a little bit fantastic, and seeing where it takes him.

Brendan Whittaker

Brendan Whittaker is a 25-year-old media student with slight literary delusions. Having never really found a practical use for any of his abilities, he decided some time ago to simply do what he enjoyed and hope that one day he can find a way get cash from making stuff up. His profit margins are still pretty low, but if someone could fling a dollar coin at him tonight he might just break even.

Tom Drahos Tom is studying Honours in Creative Writing and is interested in theories ofmetafiction, intertextuality and post-everything. He doesn't read very much. He managed to give away most of his books. Physical possessions are NOT sacred. In his spare time he likes to play or listen to music, with tastes ranging from avant-garde to boring.

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