Newstead Short Story Tattoo

Anne E Stewart fell into storytelling in 1977, when she was working as the assistant children’s librarian at Geelong. It was her lot to drive the Jolly Jumbuck storytelling van to various sites around the area, gather the children and tell them a story. She discovered she was good at it.  

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Chris Flynn is the Belfast-born Melbourne-based creator and editor of Torpedo, from Falcon vs. Monkey, Falcon Wins. His writing appears in Bad Idea, Nuke, Swindle, Dumbo Feather, Ampersand & The Lifted Brow. www.falconvsmonkey.com

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DT is a local creator and over a period of 63 years or so has made lots of music in various guises such as Snog, Black Lung, Soma and more.  DT has also written and illustrated a book.  He runs the Omni recording corporation and re-releases stuff that people have forgotten about.

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Fraser Mackay resides in Central Victoria. He has performed at literary events and festivals around the country, His music/spoken-word recordings have appeared on various compilations. He has also been published by Deakin Literary Society - Penguin-Longman and  Going Down Swinging. His runs the web-site greendoorpublishing.com

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Gordon Dowell was born in Echuca and has sashayed through life ever since - a life punctuated by travelling, working in education, being a 60s conscript, researcher & writer, oral historian…and existentialist. An enthusiast of Jack Hibberd’s dingo culture and as such‘…skirted the bovine pack…and introduced the Australian Crawl to the Frog…’ as Monk O’Neill in his Australian classic - Stretch of the Imagination. And if that wasn’t enough, played Michael Angelo Hawkins (‘…My father was a signwriter…’) in another Hibberd play - The Les Darcy Show.

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Jackie Kerin: My repertoire reflects my interest in traditional tales from around the world, my belief in the value of spoken stories, my love of nature, true and tall stories. A 5th generation born Australian from Anglo/ Irish ancestry, I particularly enjoy telling original stories based on real events and relationships. I create my stories in both prose and rhyme – there being a tradition in Australia of recording and passing on stories in ballad form.

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Josephine Rowe lives and works in St Kilda, Melbourne. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in Overland, Island, Best Australian Poems, Going Down Swinging, Torpedo and Herding Kites, and read on Radio National and 3RRR. She reads and performs spoken word regularly in Melbourne and at festivals around Australia, and was one of the curators of the 2008 Overload Poetry Festival.

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Mark Halloran was born in Kyneton, Victoria in 1977 and was raised on a sheep and cattle farm in the district. He has worked alternatively as a roustabout, wool presser and shearer around central Victoria for roughly seven years. He currently etches out a meagre living as a social worker.  

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Neil Boyack was born and adopted in 1967.  Married in Las Vegas.  Plays music in local hillbilly-rock band Jim Crow.  He writes, and writes, and writes. Transactions, his last short story collection, through The Vulgar Press, saw critical acclaim. New story The Battles appears in Torpedo Volume 5.

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Paddy O'Reilly is the author of a collection of award-winning stories, The End of the World, a novel, The Factory, and a novella, Deep Water. Her national and international story awards include The Age, the 'Judah Waten', 'Zoetrope All-Story' (USA) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (UK). Her stories have been widely published and broadcast, and anthologised in Australia and overseas in collections such as Best Australian Stories and the Five Mile Press series edited by Barry Oakley.

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Paul Mitchell's short story collection, Dodging the Bull (Wakefield Press) was part of the 2008 State Library Summer Read. He has published two collections of poetry, Awake Despite the Hour (Five Islands Press) and Minorphysics (IP 2003), and his work has featured in Best Australian Stories and Poems (Black Inc.). Bits and pieces of his stories and poems can be clicked on at www.paul-mitchell.com.au 

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Phil McNamara is a musical poet who performs regularly and resides in Central Victoria. Selected publications include Trouble arts magazine (Dec2004/Jan2005), The Starving Artist (Newstead Press, 2006), And So The Story Flows (CD release, 2008).

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