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freedom to write – freedom to read
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
[Salman Rushdie]

Adelaide PEN committee


 
Prof. Nicholas Jose
Advisor
Nicholas Jose is past President and life member of Sydney PEN, and co-founder and Advisor of Adelaide PEN. From 2005 to June 2008 Nicholas held Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, and from July 2008 Chair of Writing at the University of Western Sydney. He has been appointed to the prized annual Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University for 2009. Nicholas has published short stories, essays, translations, a memoir, and several acclaimed novels.
  Dr Dominique Wilson
Chair
Dominique Wilson is a writer, and Co-managing Editor of Wet Ink Magazine. Her short fiction has been published in anthologies, journals and newspapers, and read on radio, and one of her short stories has been made into a short film.
 
 
Jude Aquilina
Treasurer
Jude Aquilina is a poet with two collections published by Wakefield Press. Her poems appear in newspapers and literary journals across Australia and in the UK and US. Jude was the inaugural poet for the innovative Coriole Wines Poet Series with her poems appearing on the labels of a wine named after her.
  Tony Brooks
Convenor, Letter Writing Subcommittee / Planning Committee
Tony Brooks is a poet, performer and well-known Adelaide playwright and novelist. He is an ex Royal Navy man and high school teacher who has worked as actor, director, and stage manager at professional and amateur levels. He confesses to writing dozens of poems that he sometimes performs in public.
     
 
Dr Patrick Allington
Membership officer
Patrick Allington is a freelance writer, critic, editor and researcher. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Griffith Review, Southerly and elsewhere. His critical writings appear regularly in publications such as Australian Book Review and The Advertiser (Adelaide). In 2007 he was awarded an Australia Council grant for his novel-in-progress, Potatoes In All Their Glory.
  Dr Anne-Marie Smith
Planning Committee
A community-oriented person and full-time writer, Anne-Marie Smith has worked in a prison and with Amnesty International. Editing an anthology on culture for The Multicultural Writers Association of Australia, she is a linguist who worked in Western Australia in community development and as tertiary lecturer in Australia and overseas.
     

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