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WRITING AND EDITING

Student: Edit & Submit with Sophie Cunningham, 2025

Editor: Faber Writing Academy Anthology 2023
Editions: Fiction (Sydney & Online), Fiction (Melbourne), Fiction (Brisbane), Nonfiction.

Judge: Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship, 2023 (with writer Sara M Saleh and Fiction Publisher for HarperCollins and Voyager, Anna Valdinger).

Student: Year of the Novel with Emily Maguire, 2023

Freelance editor and copywriter: Rowena Writes Copy, 2013 – 2021
Specialist in copywriting and marketing for the arts and university sector. 

Longlisted: Stockholm Writers Festival First Pages Prize 2019 literary award – Land of Lambs and Wolves

Shortlisted: Apollo Bay Writers Festival Writing Competition 2017 – Irregular

Varuna Invited Residency, 2015 and 2019

Master of Creative Writing, University of Sydney, 2011-2014

Editor: New Horizons magazine, Publishers Internationale, September, 2014

Writer: Australian Times, UK, Blue Sky Publications, Discovering County Clare, February, 2013

Writer: Learning Curve magazine, Australian Lawyers Look Outside the Courtroom, December, 2012
 
 
ARTS PROGRAMING
Writing NSW Program Manager (August 2023 to April 2024)

Programmer/Producer: First Friday online industry interview series,
Writing NSW, 2021-2023

Programmer/Producer: UNSW Law, Films for Thought, human rights film series.

 
ARTS MEDIA
Moderator: Talking Writing: Debut Authors, Writing NSW, 18 October, 2023
Featuring: Hayley Scrivenor (Dirt Town), Zaheda Ghani (Pomegranate & Fig) and Nick Bhasin (I Look Forward to Hearing from You).
 
Interviewer: First Friday with Fiona Hazard, Writing NSW, 2 June, 2023
Guest: Fiona Hazard, Group Publishing Director for Hachette Australia and New Zealand.
 
Interviewer: First Friday with Kate Mildenhall, Writing NSW, 7 October, 2022
Guest: Kate Mildenhall, acclaimed author and cohost of The First Time podcast.

Interviewer: First Friday with Joanne Kee, Writing NSW, 1 July, 2022
Guest: Joanne Kee, Executive Producer of Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta.

Interviewer: First Friday with Dr David Roland, Writing NSW, 1 October, 2021
Guest: Dr David Roland, author and psychologist.
 
Interviewer: First Friday with Benython Oldfield, Writing NSW, 2 July, 2021
Guest: Benython Oldfield, literary agent and director of Zeitgeist Agency.
 
Radio Producer / Presenter - 2NBC, 90.1FM (Community Radio) (Jan ’04 – Dec ’04)

Shopfront Theatre for Young People (local and international productions)

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