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Most of the writers featured on this page are unpublished. Included here are brief biographical details. Each extract can be downloaded as a PDF.

If you would like more information on any of these authors please contact Calidris.

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Alan Gould

What an independent reader said about award winning Canberra author Alan Gould's new novel Life Drawing:

"The poetry of Gould's writing is one of the outstanding features of this novel. As a reader you revel in the beauty and freshness of phrases and images and relish the thoughtful playful use of language. This is richly textured language that is sensuous and metaphorical and enchanting. The other outstanding feature of this novel is its central premise. This is a novel that sets out to explore what it means to be human and how time and history impacts on who we are. The way the structure of the novel reflects the author's preoccupations as well as the narrative is a sign of a true craftsman.”

Click here to download the first chapter of Life Drawing.

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Luke Harris

Luke Harris was raised in outback NSW, Australia and has an underground holiday home. He designs books and book covers for a living and writes the rest of the time. His interests include reading, hiking and painting. He lives with his wife Tracy, a primary school teacher, in Melbourne. Click here to read a sample of Luke Harris's writing.

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Wendy Moore

Wendy Khadijah Moore (23.8.1947 - 15.9.2007) was an Australian who travelled extensively in every continent except Africa and Antarctica. She worked as a magazine editor and contributor to many magazines including Eastern & Oriental, Sydney Morning Herald, Forbes, Travel & Leisure and Silver Kris.

In 1987 she was awarded the Malaysian Tourism Gold Award for Travel Writing. Her books include Malaysia: Profile of a Nation (Periplus, 2002); Sydney in a Week (New Holland, 1997), This is Sydney (New Holland, 1996), Haunting Tales (Planet Press, 1995) and This is Malaysia (New Holland, 1995).

Her books include Malaysia: Profile of a Nation (Periplus, 2002); Sydney in a Week (New Holland, 1997), This is Sydney (New Holland, 1996), Haunting Tales (Planet Press, 1995), This is Malaysia (New Holland, 1995) and Malaysia: A Pictorial History 1400 — 2004 (Archipelago Press, 2004).

On many assignments she teamed up with her photographer husband, Radin. In 2001 they undertook a journey across Russia on the Trans-Siberian railway in winter. Click here to read an extract.

Between travels they divided their time between an urban base in Kuala Lumpur and a rural retreat on the Far South Coast of New South Wales. Wendy and Radin were working on a book on Malay houses, the old houses of Malaysia prior to her death.

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Mark Peters

Mark Peters is an academic based at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, a master's degree in Cognitive Science, as well as a bachelor's honours degree in Fine Art. He has published in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine perception, robotics, image processing, cognitive science, philosophy of consciousness, and marketing.

Born in Sydney, Australia in 1957 Mark has travelled to over forty countries. He has visited Japan many times in the last decade, and travelled to all parts of the country. He speaks enough Japanese to significantly increase confusion. Mark is the only non-Japanese member of the Kansai Calligraphy Association, based in Osaka.

Click here to read an extract from his philosophical travel narrative, Japan Dreams: Notes from an Unreal Country.

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Luke Stegemann

Born in Brisbane, Luke Stegemann was brought up all over eastern Australia, attending state and boarding schools in QLD, NSW and the ACT.

A writer, teacher and university lecturer, he has spent large periods of time outside Australia, living and working principally in Spain, Japan, the UK and the Czech Republic.

He is particularly interested in the constant reinvention of language, along with the effects of neurological disorders on character and perception. Click here to read a chapter from his novel Epileptica.

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Miriam Sved

Miriam Sved was born in Sydney in 1978. She currently lives in Brunswick, Melbourne, where she is taking time off from a PhD to work on her second novel. Click here to read a sample of Miriam’s writing.

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