Contributors - Volume 3, 2009

• Dean Champ
  I'm a Melbourne-based writer who tutors in Popular Culture and Media at Swinburne University. I plan to undertake my PhD by artefact and exegesis in 2009. My short film 'ascent' was well received at festivals and my radio doco 'A Brief History of LSD' was aired on Radio National.
• Chris Galloway
  Chris Galloway is a novice poet who also teaches public relations at Swinburne University. He believes PR is much more than "spin" and tries to help students see the possibilities for ethical practice.
• Majena Mafe
  Majena Mafe's writings are shaped to question subjectivity, frames of meaning and canonicity. Her theory-inspired work is driven by syntactic possibilities, and the imperative of new possibilities of rendering nonsense as meaning. She refers to the intelligence of Gertrude Stein and her vital innovations. Majena is presently writing a theory of sounded-language in Steins own words.
• Adrian Murphy
  Adrian Murphy is a MA student and enjoys the craft and technique of writing; also learning the philosophical aspects and practice-led research that is entailed in higher education at Swinburne University. He has taught business writing and communications to the employment industry and is currently ghostwriting an unauthorised biography.
• Helen O'Brien
  Helen O'Brien is currently undertaking a PhD in Writing at Swinburne. As a classical pianist, her interest in fortepiano led her to perform around Australia and broadcast for ABC radio. Helen's academic writing pursuits include piano pedagogy and music in film while her creative writing is centered on poetry and song texts.
• Daniel Streltschenko
  Daniel Streltschenko is 28 years old. He lives in Melbourne. Before that he spent four years overseas, living in the UK and traveling throughout Europe and South America. At the moment he is working on a novel which takes his travel journals and distorts and embellishes them into something (hopefully) much more profound and entertaining.
• Patrick West
  Patrick West is Senior Lecturer in Professional and Creative Writing at Deakin University. He is a literary journalist, scriptwriter and a widely published and award-winning short story writer. Patrick’s research interests span contemporary literature, television and animal studies. He has a PhD from The University of Melbourne.