CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME Brigid Lowry

EMAIL penwoman@tasman.net

WEBSITE http://www.tasman.net/~penwoman/

DATE OF BIRTH 25th March 1953

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

MA (Creative Writing) University of Western Australia 1997

Post-Graduate Diploma of English Literature UWA 1993 (Distinction)

BA (English) Curtin University 1992 (Distinction)

Computer Applications Diploma Perth IteC 1987

Diploma of Teaching Auckland Teachers College 1973 (Distinction)

GRANTS

2005 New Work Creative New Zealand

1996 Recipient Category B Fellowship Literature Board of the Australia Council

RESIDENCIES

2006 September Ledig House. Hudson, New York. International Writing Residency.

2004 April-September Dunedin College of Education/Creative NZ Children’s Writer in Residence

2001 May Writer in Residence KSP Writers’ Centre Western Australia

1995 August-November Writer-in-Residence. Aug- Nov Transitions Multicultural Writing Project

1993 October Residential Writing Fellowship…VARUNA Blue Mountains NSW

1992 July-August Emerging-Writer-in-Residence KSP Writers' Centre

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

1997 MA Scholarship University of Western Australia

1993 Outstanding Student Award Post-Graduate Diploma Curtin University

1992 Curtin Alumni Post-Graduate Diploma Scholarship

1992 Outstanding Student Award Creative Writing Curtin University

1991 Outstanding Student Award Creative Writing Curtin University

LITERARY PRIZES

2006 “With Lots of Love From Georgia” NZ Children’s Post Book Awards YA Category Winner

1999 “Guitar Highway Rose” Hoffman Readers’ Choice Award

1996 “The Unsent Letter” 720 6WF Short Story Competition

1995 “How To Mend A Broken Heart” Books & Writing Radio National Short Story Competition

1994 “Two Sorts Of People” Warana Short Fiction Award

1993 "The Absolutely Last Chance Sale" 6WF Short Story Competition

1992 "Sorrows" Highly Commended Imago Short Story Competition

1992 Three Stories Highly Commended KSP Short Fiction Award

1990 Winner Jolley Good Fiction Award Curtin University

1985 Canning Literary Award Second Prize National Poetry Competition

PUBLISHED WORK YOUNG ADULT NOVELS

2005 With Lots of Love From Georgia Allen & Unwin.

2002 Space Camp Co-authored with Sam Field Allen & Unwin

2001 Follow The Blue Allen & Unwin Nominated for CBC Awards

1996 Guitar Highway Rose Allen and Unwin Short Listed / WA Premiers Award & Children’s Book of the Year Award Winner: WAYoung Readers Choice Book Award

1993 Fizz & Max & Me Pan Macmillan Dolly Fiction Series

PUBLISHED WORK POETRY

2005 “Hat Poem” & “Red” Sleepy Hollow Stirs Anthology Nucleus Publicataions, Nelson

2004 “Sunflowers” Otago Daily Times October

1998 “Fathers’ Day 1996” Western Word Vol 22 No 4 1998

“In The World” Far & Wide: Buddhist Poetry from the Beats to Hip Hop, USA Parallax Press

“Sunflowers” Southern Review Volume 31 No 2 1998

“The Addition of Water”

“Out of Control in Winter” Southerly Vol 57 No 4 Summer 1997-98

1997 “The Last Poem” Southern Review Vol 31 No 1 March 1997

“Red” AWBR Vol 9 No 2/3 Spring 1997

“Getting Unmarried Today” Imago Vol 9 No 3 Summer 1997

1996 “Poetry Workshop” Western Word Magazine Vol 20 No 9 1996

“To My Husband on Valentine’s Day Western Word Magazine Vol 20 No 6 1996

“Jive” Mind Moon Circle Winter 1996

“Gassho” Mind Moon Circle Summer 1996

1995 “Map For Shelley” Naked Eye Magazine Vol 1 1995

“Homecoming” Mind Moon Circle Autumn 1995

“Yalgoo” The Western Word Vol. 19 No 3

“Black Crayon” Speculum Magazine

1994 “Border Lines” Mind Moon Circle Spring 1994

“Saving The Many Beings” Fremantle Arts Review Vol 9 No 5

“These Blues” Navigations Issue 3 Summer 1994

"Apricot" Southern Review Vol 27 No 3 September 1994

1993 "Mother's Day 1992" Fremantle Arts Review Vol 8 No 7

"Certain Difficulties" Speculum Magazine

"Out of Control In Winter" Naked Eye Magazine

"Yalgoo", "One Day" &

"King and Queen of the Wilderness" Curtin Graduation Ceremony

"Specifically Outlawed" & "Neighbours" Southern Review Vol 25 No 3

1992 "My Hat" Fremantle Arts Review Vol 7 No 1

"She Once Said" Fremantle Focus Vol 9 No 7

"Mothers Day 1992" Naked Eye Magazine

"Shabby Brilliant Heart Sutra" Zen Group of WA Magazine

"Notebook Poem" Zen Group of WA Magazine

1991 "She" & "One Day" Speculum Magazine

“King & Queen of the Wilderness” Naked Eye

1988 "Song For Sam" Buddhist Peace Fellowship Newsletter

1987 "Following the Moon Home" Fremantle Arts Review Vol 2 No 12

"Plum" Fremantle Arts Review Vol 2 No 1

"Song of a Housewife" Fremantle Arts Review Vol 1 No 9

PUBLISHED WORK SHORT FICTION

2005 “How to Mend a Broken Heart” Home: New Zealand Short Short Stories. Black Swan Books

2005 “Alphabetical Destiny” Wallpaper: Teenage Antholgy. Random House. Ed Barbara Else

2005 “Sisters” Turbine On-line Journal IML.Victoria University.

1997 “Sisters” Westerly Magazine Vol 42 No3 Spring 1997

“The Mirrored Surface”,

“Two Sorts of People” &

“Sorrows” Wild Fictions Anthology Cliff Street Publishing Fremantle

1996 “A Little Romance” &

“Woman Found In Lonely Room” Westerly Magazine No 2 Winter 1996

“Curriculum Vitae” Transitions: Anthology Fremantle

1995 “Two Sorts of People” Imago Vol 7 No 1 March 1995

1994 “Fat Lady” Summer Shorts 2 Fremantle Arts Centre Press

1994 “Sorrows” Fremantle Arts Review Vol 9 No 6

"If I Were To Paint You, Irina" Fremantle Arts Review Vol 9 No 2

1993 "Happy and in Love" Westerly Magazine

Vol 38 No 4 Summer 1993

"Alphabetical Destiny" &

"Happy Christmas Tessa" Summer Shorts Anthology Fremantle Arts Centre Press

"Man in Blue Holden" Shrieks Anthology Women’s Redress Press

"Slow Afternoons with an Old Lady" Westerly Magazine Vol 38 No 3 Spring 1993

"Chiko Roll" Australian Book Review No 156 November 1993

"Slow Afternoons with an Old Lady" &

"Chiko Roll" In Perspective Society of Women Writers Anthology

1992 "Pearlie Said Don't" Speculum Magazine

"Fragment" Naked Eye Magazine

"A Lifetime of Hardboiled Eggs" Naked Eye Magazine

"Smooth and Ragged Memories" Aversion Magazine No 3

1991 "Flimsy Everyday Kitchen Mystery" Naked Eye Magazine

"The Job with the Circus" Australian Short Stories No 34

"Bittersweet" Westerly Magazine June 1991 No 2

1990 "The Mirrored Surface" Naked Eye Magazine

"Untitled" Speculum Magazine

WRITERS’ FESTIVALS: Invited Guest

2002 June Storylines Childrens Literature Festival /Auckland

2001 October Brisbane Writers Festival

2000 June Voices on the Coast / Maroochydore

1999 February Young Adult Workshop / Perth Writers’ Festival

1998 August Youth Panel / Melbourne Writers’ Festival

March Down South Writers’ Festival / Busselton

GUEST READINGS

2004 Women Writers Dunedin NZ

2001 Woven Words Starfish Café Fremantle

Brisbane Writers Festival South Bank

World of Women House of Blues Café Perth

GUEST READINGS continued

1997 Disk Reading Greenwich Bar Perth

1998 Work-in-Progress series University of Western Australia

Guest Reader KSP Foundation Perth

1996 LunchLines Edith Cowan University

Panel & Reading Down South Writers’ Festival Busselton

WEB Women’s Readings at the Aberdeen Hotel Perth

Disk Reading Pockets Nightclub Perth

1995 Naked Eye Launch Pica Bar Perth

Disk Reading Pockets Nightclub Perth

1994 Navigations Launch Pockets Nightclub Perth

1993 SHRIEK Launch Harold Park Hotel Sydney

VARUNA Foundation Garden Readings Blue Mountains

WEB Women’s Readings at the Actors Centre Perth

1992 Disk Reading Naked Eye Promotion

Tuesday Morning Show Perth Town Hall

Guest Reader KSP Foundation

"Cultural Descent Cabaret" The Blue Room Bar

1991 Speculum Launch

Naked Eye Launch

Guest Reader KSP Foundation

Feminist Book FortnightBenefit Night Speculum Magazine

Celebration Of Women's Writing Family Planning Library

New Writing By Women Disk Reading

Orientation Day Reading Curtin University

"World Of Dew Concert" Zen Group of WA

"Beneath the Street" Readings at Cafe Sport

1990 Jolley Good Fiction Award Presentation

RADIO BROADCASTS

April 1996 “The Unsent Letter” 720 6WF

September 1995 “How To Mend A Broken Heart” Books & Writing Radio National

July 1994 "Man in Blue Holden" Arts Today Radio National

March 1994 "The Absolutely Last Chance Sale" Fictions Radio National

October 1993 Poetry Plus on the Air A half hour show on Radio 2BLU

Sydney / featuring the writer and her work

February 1993 "The Absolutely Last Chance Sale" Radio 6WF Perth

September 1991 "Happy and in Love" Radio 6NR Perth

MASTER CLASSES

1990 Master Poet's Workshop with Dorothy Hewett

BOOK REVIEWS

2005 Various. Nelson Evening Mail NZ

2001 “At Swim Two Boys” Good Reading Magazine October

1997 “Pomegranate Season” Westerly

“Irish Poetry” The Journal Vol 5 No 3

Book Reviews - continued

1991 "Old Lands New Writings: Literature and Post Colonialism"

Article on 1991 Writers' Festival OzMuse Magazine Vol 1 No 8 May 1991

1969 Selected Book Reviews Auckland Star

SPECIAL PROJECTS :

Autumn 2004 Judge Arrowtown Autumn Festival Writing Competition

September 2001 Member of the Peer Assesment Panel of the Literature Board of the Australia Council

May 2001 Victorian English Teachers Conference Book Launch and Presentation

June- Dec 1997 Mentor / Australian Council Writers’ Initiative Mentor Scheme, Western Australia

1996 Participant: Writers Training Course / National Book Council Fremantle

Book Launch/ Speaker Dragon Summer For Fremantle Arts Centre Press

Literary Debate Fremantle Arts Centre “Is Romance Dead?”

1995 Guest Editor The Creative World in FAW Western Word Vol 19 No 4

1993 Poetry Judge Karrinyup Writers' Club Poetry and Short Fiction Competition

Poetry Judge "Hannah Downie Memorial Prize" for Amnesty International

1992 Poetry Judge "Hannah Downie Memorial Prize" for Amnesty International

Urban Thresholds Collaborative Writing Project with Year 7 at Edgewater Primary to produce one in a series of posters for the Westrail/TransPerth Urban Art Project on the Northern Train Line.

TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING

2006 Memoir/ Non Fiction Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology

2005 Juicy Writing Classes. Various Nelson High Schools.

2004 Queens School & Arthur St School. Dunedin

2003 Zonta Camp / Talented Young Writers Marlborough

2002 Juicy Writing Course Fairfield House Nelson

2001 Creative Writing and Performance 112 Curtin University

2001 Rowville School / Melbourne Meet-the-Author / Creative Writing Day

2001 A Week of Poetry Scotch College (Year Nine Boys)

2001 Creative Journal Writing UWA Extension

2000 Fiction Module: Second Year Prose Curtin University

1998 The Creative Journal UWA Extension

Fabulous Fiction Fellowship of Australian Writers UWA

Fiction Module: Second Year Prose Curtin University

1997 The Creative Journal UWA Extension

The World of Words Fellowship of Australian Writers WA

1996 Freeing The Writer Within: A one week intensive. Albany Summer School Albany

Writing From The Centre Fremantle Arts Centre

Exciting Writing: The Inner Journey The Meeting Place Fremantle

The World Of Words Fellowship Of Australian Writers

One Day Intensive Margaret River Writers’ Collective

1995 Wild Writing Fellowship of Australian Writers WA.

The Creative Journal UWA Extension

1995 Curtin University Tutor Creative Writing 211

1994 Curtin University Tutor Creative Writing 120

1994 Workshop Fellowship of Australian Writers WA.

Creative Journal Writing Fellowship of Australian Writers WA

1993 Creative Journal Writing: An 8 Week Class The Meeting Place Fremantle

Journal Class Zen Group of WA

1992 Writing Workshop Karrinyup Writers' Club

Two 8 week classes: -

Creative Journal Writing for Women Family Planning Association of WA.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful. A collection of short fiction for young adults.

Due out with Allen & Unwin in August 2007.

Juicy Writing: Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers

Due out with Allen & Unwin, February 2008

MEMBERSHIP OF LITERARY ORGANISATIONS

NZ Society of Authors

Storylines Children’s Literature Foundation

NZ Book Council

NZ Poetry Society

REFEREES

Rosalind Price - Publisher, Allen & Unwin. Melbourne. PH: (03) 96655000

Fiona Inglis - Literary Agent, Curtis Brown. Sydney. PH: (02) 9361 616

Fleur Beale – Author. New Zealand. PH: (04) 387 4040