Name: Simone Bailey
Artist's statement: Hopefully will do the next GAN, (Great Australian Novel). Mustn't fear failure. Only people who don't fail, are the ones who never try.
Medium: Fiction
Current projects: working on a third novel, a satire about a 40 year old man...
Contact details: bingells@bigpond.com
Available for: book signings, writing workshops and articles
Category: Writer
Website: www.bingellsblog.bigblog.com.au

Name: Bob Bush
Artist's statement: Writes and performs rhyming poetry that demonstrates the hardships and humour of life in Australia.
Current projects: Promoting 3rd book of poetry.
Contact details: Phone 4938 8323. email rlbush@idl.net.au
Available for: Guest speaker and peforming poetry.
Category: Poet

Name: Singleton Bush Poets
Artist's statement: To gether and keep alive the tradition of Bush Poetry started by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.
Medium: Verse and poetry and all types
Current projects: Meet the 1st Wednesday of the month, 7pm at Singleton Heights RSL
Contact details: Heather Searles

Name: Sharyn Munro
Artist's statement: I am interested in place-based writing, and in making nature writing and environmental issues accessible to a wider readership by way of a personal form of nonfiction that uses selective memoir and a conversational tone to engage, amuse and inform. My books, 'The Woman on the Mountain', Exisle 2007, and 'Mountain Tails', Exisle 2009, employ this. I am fascinated by all creatures – human or otherwise – and find significance, and thus stories, in the most ordinary of things. All writing – even ads or corporate newsletters – is practicing my craft.
Medium: Fiction, literary non-fiction
Current projects: Research for 3rd book,' The Woman on the Road' (tentative title) about being in other wild edge places than my mountain; plus a collection of short stories, 'Peeping through my fingers'; plus rewriting (endlessly) my novel – and always looking for interesting owner-built homes to write articles about.
Contact details: email: sharyn@sharynmunro.com
Available for: Freelance writing projects, copywriting. Public speaking. Manuscript asessment, editing, mentoring, judging, workshops.
Category: Writer
Website: www.sharynmunro.com

Name: John O'Brien
Artist's statement: I'm a practising scriptwriter, best known for creating the TV series Fireflies. I've also written for such shows as Water Rats and MDA, and I do script editing and some drama teaching. I have an occasional blog too.
Medium: film & TV, drama and improvisation
Contact details: 02 4938 9292
Available for: script editing, writing, teaching, corporate work
Category: writer, screen
Website: http://cloudsinhead.wordpress.com/

Name: Ken Rubeli
Artist's statement: Ken is still on the run from the Malaysian jungle which is the focus of his book Tropical Rainforests of South-east Asia. He is a freelance photo-journalist and his work has been published in many arenas including Asian Geographic Journal, Asian Heritage, Sydney Morning Herald and WWF promotions. Ken is a self-trained mime and a gifted poet. He uses these skills on Lightfoot School Camps run at Wangat Lodge.
Medium: Poetry, photography, photo-journalism, mime
Current projects: Tillegra Dam Campaign
Available for: Photographic commissions, poetry performance, mime
Category: Poet, Writer, Photographer, Mime
Website: www.wangat.com.au

Name: Matthew Thompson
Artist's statement: I am the author of My Colombian Death, a bestselling nonfiction book described in one newspaper as “a hell-ride through South America’s deadliest melting pot”. As a freelance journalist and former Sydney Morning Herald reporter, I have also covered the wars of the southern Philippines, nudist colonies, women’s boxing, professional pool hustling, tribal horse fights and more. I believe in going dangerously deep into situations in order to write about them, rather than reporting from a distance.
Medium: Reportage, conventional journalism, narrative nonfiction.
Current projects: Planning the new book, sub-editing at the Newcastle Herald, completing a doctorate as a research scholar with the Writing & Society Research Group of the University of Western Sydney, tutoring at Newcastle University.
Contact details: thompson_writing@yahoo.com.au
Available for: Writing workshops, manuscript advice, journalism commissions.
Category: Adventurous nonfiction with high literary values.
Website: www.mycolombiandeath.com