Writing history

Email jcmgw@msn.com

2009 MA in Creative Writing, University of Canberra.

Book Publication

2008 Begging the Question (poetry Ginninderra Press)
Some Towns (poetry chap book Wagtail series Picaro Press
2007 Other Lives (short stories Ginninderra Press)
2006 The last tourist (poetry Five Island Press)
1998 Outside temple boundaries (poetry Five Islands Press)

Anthologised

2009 Motherlode Australian Women’s Poetry 1986-2008, Puncher and Wattmann, Eds Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse
2007 The Road South Contemporary Australian Poetry, Bengal Creations, India, Ed Ron Pretty
2006 Best Australian Poetry Black Inc Ed Dorothy Porter
2004 River of Verse A Tasmanian Journey 1800-2004 BlackRiverPress Ed Helen Gee
1992 The Whirling Spindle National Council of Women of Victoria Ed Joan Ackland

Journals and newspapers 2000 – 2008

Meanjin, Heat, Southerly, Island, Overland, Cordite, Scarp, Australian Women’s Book Review, Verandah, Wet Ink,The Age, Brisbane Courier Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, Adelaide Review, New England Review, Takahe (New Zealand), Antipodes (USA), Commonweal (USA), The Stinging Fly (Ireland), Ko (Japan), Tears in the Fence (UK),

Online

Cordite, Thylazine, Blackmail Press (New Zealand), Orange Room Review(USA), Common Ties (USA), Arabesques Review(Algeria), Ars Interpres (Sweden), Numinous Spiritual Poetry(USA).

Radio Broadcasts

ABC Radio National’s Poetica, 5UV Adelaide Writers’ radio

Featured Reader

2009 Queensland Poetry Festival
2006 Queensland Poetry Festival
2006 Melbourne Overload Poetry Festival
2004 Tasmanian Mountain Festival
2003 Tasmanian Poetry Festival
2001 Melbourne Poetry Festival

Editing

ars poetica (national poetry journal 1995-1997)

Writers’ Residencies

2006 Australian Centre University of Melbourne
2000 Varuna Writers’ Centre (NSW)
1997 Booranga Writers’ Centre (NSW)

Awards/Fellowships

2008 Winner Byron Bay Writers’ Festival Poetry Competition
2005 Winner of the D.J O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship
2005 Winner of the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize for My mother’s travel diary
2004 Winner of the New England Poetry Award for Dear Dave
2003 Winner of the King Island Literary Award for poem Tips for the last tourist
2000 Short listed for the D.J O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship
1998 FAW Anne Elder Award for poetry collection outside temple boundaries

Grants

2007 Arts Tasmania New Work Grant
2007 Australia Council New Work Grant
2000 Arts Victoria Arts Development New Work Grant
1994 Arts Victoria Arts Development Best Settings Grant

Tours

2001 Poetry on Wheels (NSW Ministry for the Arts)

Collaborations

2008 Endangered drawing the line – an exhibition and series of arts related events responding to endangered species and our social and cultural identities. Rosny Schoolhouse Gallery and Barn and The Long Gallery Salamanca March 2008

1998 unearthed – an installation of poetry and sculpture with sculptor Philip Cappadona. Yarra Sculpture Space Melbourne Feb – March 1998