PROFESSIONAL WRITING TEACHERS
A little bit about us…

Sherryl Clark began working in community writing and publishing in1985. She taught writing workshops and classes all around Victoria and interstate, and was the Writing & Publishing Officer at Footscray Community Arts Centre for 6 years, as well as Writer in Residence for the City of Boroondara. She has been teaching in the Professional Writing & Editing course since 1996.
She more than thirty children’s books published, as well as two collections of poetry, a how-to guide on self-publishing and a teenage rock musical. To date, her most popular children’s book is The Too-Tight Tutu which is Penguin’s top selling Aussie Bite. Her children’s novel-in-poems, Farm Kid, was published by Penguin in May 2004, and won the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Award for children's books. Her second verse novel Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) was published in May 2007 and was a 2008 CBCA Honour Book. Her website is at www.sherrylclark.com

Susanna Bryceson works as a non-fiction writer and editor, mainly for specialist magazines and the corporate/government sector. She has a varied career in publishing, ranging from magazines to books to public information. With fellow teacher, Sherryl Clark, she runs TextConnection and teaches every year in Hong Kong. She has been teaching Professional Writing and Editing since 1994 for businesses, community organisations and Victoria University. She has been working on contract with the City of Darebin for the past 4 years producing newsletters.

Tracey Rolfe is a writer, freelance editor and co-editor of Poetrix. She has edited (and proofread) a variety of publications including pamphlets, theses, literacy worksheets for children, books and the Australian edition of the board game Cranium.
Her writing credits include poetry and short stories in a variety of literary and genre magazines and anthologies, including Aurealis, Eidolon, Orb, Agog!, Fables and Reflections, AntipodeanSF (online journal), LiNQ, Famous Reporter, Redoubt and Poetry Monash, nonfiction in ViewPoint and a children’s story in Past Haunts (Spinouts Sapphire series, Longman). She has also won several writing competitions, was a semifinalist in L.Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Competition (USA), was Highly Commended in the My Brother Jack Short Story Competition (Glen Eira Literary Awards) and won a commendation in the 2004 Aurealis Awards.
She belongs to three writers’ groups and attended the inaugural Clarion South Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ workshop (Brisbane 2004); her main passion is writing fantasy novels, and she is currently completing the eleventh draft of her first novel.

Marilyn Bowler is a freelance writer and editor, who specialises in producing newsletters and other business publications. Marilyn teaches Editing 1 at Victoria University and Editing 2 at the Centre of Adult Education, as well as business writing for a private training company. In what free time she has, she is researching and writing a history linking her family's life stories to the times in which they lived. She keeps talking about retiring but never seems to have time to actually get around to it.

Paul MacDonald's writing credits for TV include The Big Gig, Rubbery Figures, Fast Forward, Full Frontal and In Melbourne Tonight. He has produced shows for SYN Radio, script edited acts for Class Clowns for the Comedy Festival and helped direct and edit plays for the Fast and Fresh drama festival. He has also published a book ‘She's Not Normally Like That' a light hearted look at parenting. Currently he is happily teaching in the northern suburbs, maintaining his involvement in radio and theatre plus a keen interest in comedy in all its forms.

Pam Kleeman is our photography teacher. She is a practising and exhibiting photographic artist with a career spanning more than 20 years. Rather than creating standard photographic prints on paper, she uses different techniques to free the image and give it a more three-dimensional feel. In the past her images have appeared on hospital beds, cookware, vinyl LP's, and been constructed into product ranges. Her focus is the human body and a growing sense of humanity being commodified, consumed and de-valued; the disadvantaged being the leftovers. Her latest exhibition in Canberra is called Are You Being Served?

Robert Corbet has worked with street kids and played guitar in a Koori reggae band. He has been mugged in Rio and chased by riot police. He has taught English to newly arrived migrants, retrenched factory workers, wealthy overseas students, children, teenagers and adults of all ages. Now living in Brunswick, Melbourne, his house is overrun by children and small animals. His three young adult novels have been published by Allen & Unwin. Robert teaches fiction writing at VU. Find out more about Robert here.

Christine Nagel is our non-fiction and corporate writing teacher. She has taught at Curtin University. She also has a long career in magazine editing and writing, and has been a literary agent.

Our other teachers include Margaret McCarthy (short fiction writer), Ann Langusch (desktop publisher and graphic designer) and Juanita Custance (web writing and design).

Professional Writing and Editing
Victoria University