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Jean Versace - Aspiring writer
Jean Versace is a Queensland writer whose employers (newspapers, schools) have dictated the direction of most of her output over the years - including a great number of non-fiction articles. She moved into poetry, short stories and plays during the dozen years that she has been a member of the Ravenshoe Writers Group.
Born in Queensland just after WWII, she grew up in the bush south-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, her childhood adventures feeding her imagination, with the challenges and joys of adulthood tempering her writing. She lives now with husband, Grahame, just off the Atherton Tableland, FNQ, halfway between Ravenshoe and Mt Garnet and will move south to NSW in 2010 to be closer to their three sons and their families.
Jean obtained a BVA (Printmaking) at James Cook University, Townsville, in 1992 and an Assoc. Deg. in Arts (Writing) externally through Lismore's Southern Cross University in 2009.
She has been published in a number of anthologies and small-press volumes, including Poetrix, and has won numerous short story and poetry competitions around Australia. She has also written several one-act plays (one of which has been performed) and 10-minute plays.
In recent years, Jean has been a member of RADF (Herberton Shire), Qld Writers Centre and the Ravenshoe Writers Group where she has been involved in the production of a variety of publications (local history and information on tourist roads and walks) as well as a 2009 anthology.
An avid reader with an unquenchable appetite for most genres, Jean's aspirations extend beyond a number of abortive beginnings of novels. She anticipates dialogue and inspiration as a member of Book Creators Circle, where writers with a diversity of interests may learn from and support each other.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Jean Versace Phone: 07 40970251
R/No. 39 Woodleigh Road
Mount Garnet Qld 4872
jversace@activ8.net.au |
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JEAN VERSACE
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