A big thanks to Jessica Royans

We are very grateful to Jessica Royans for the beautiful poster that she made for our recent event at the Wheatie on Sept 22. Some info on Jessica: (pic here soon) Jessica is extremely fond of scribbling, adores birds and is a proud drinker of decaf tea. She has had a pen in her hand for as long as she can remember & is currently putting together an online portfolio of paintings, drawings & other sorts of heart-felt ponderings. .

Our Headliners for Sept 22nd

Ben Chandler Ben lives mostly in worlds of his own creation but occasionally misses the real world and comes home to Adelaide. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Flinders University, where he occasionally teaches Creative Writing and English Literature, and has published academic work on popular culture, video game narrative theory, Japanese heroism, anime & manga, and creative writing pedagogy. In 2010 he was awarded the Colin Thiele Creative Writing Scholarship from Carclew Youth Arts Board and was a finalist in the Channel 9 SA Young Achiever Awards. Ben loves heroes, villains, comic books, and video games, and believes you can learn more from watching cartoons than you can from the news. Like all fantasy writers, Ben has a cat. His cat is named Loki. It’s possible Loki is the reincarnation of the Norse God of Mischief, but Ben hopes this is just a flight of his fancy. Quillblade: Volume One of the Voyages of the Flying Dragon is in stores now! http://www.benchandler.com.au/ Molly Murn Molly Murn is completing a Masters in Creative Writing at Flinders University. She also teaches part time at Flinders in English and Creative Writing. As part of her thesis she is writing a novella, The Heart of the Grass Tree, set in Kangaroo Island. Molly has had several poems published in the Friendly Street Readers Rewired (2008) and Catch Fire (2009). Her poem 'Lubra Creek' won the Satura prize — best poem of a new poet in the Friendly Street Reader in 2008. Molly has also had some of her poems broadcast on community radio. Kate Hayford Kate Hayford is currently undertaking a Ph.D in Creative Writing at Flinders University. Her creative project is a contemporary Australian novel that focuses on the trials and tribulations of a thirty-year-old man stuck in an employment rut, lusting after his mate’s girlfriend and playing for a country football side of chronic losers. A chapter of this was published as a short story in Goodnight Goodnight, the 2009 Wirra Wirra short story anthology. Kate also does the odd book review on Radio Adelaide. She lives with her partner, their two little boys and a mad cat, in a house next door to a mad chicken and across the road from three mad cows. She juggles her literary pursuits with football, cooking and maintaining her eldest son’s millipede collection. She dislikes capsicum and Hugh Grant. Link to ‘Fisho’s Frolics’, Kate’s interactive blog thread (which she writes under the name ‘Fisho McSpaz’): http://www.safooty.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=29241&start=0

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