CHAIR
BRETT MARTIN has been a librarian with the State Library of Tasmania since 2003, and was previously at Wagga Wagga City Library in NSW. He has a published novel and has had a number of photographic exhibitions in Hobart.  He has been  actively involved in the arts in Canberra, throughout regional NSW and in Tasmania and has served on several editorial committees as well as tutoring at Charles Sturt University.

SECRETARY/PUBLIC OFFICER
BEVERLEY JEFFERSON was born in New Guinea, and lived in Frankston, Kathmandu, Canberra, Darwin and Melbourne before deciding to make Tasmania her home in 1995. In 1995 Bev graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Latrobe University and in 2002 she graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a post-grad in documentary film making. Bev has performed many roles in arts management including Executive Officer of the Tasmanian Youth Orchestra, Producer for Circus Elysium, Marketing Manager for the Australian Script Centre, and Executive Officer of the Tasmanian Arts Council. She is currently General Manager of Wide Angle Tasmania (Tasmania’s screen resource organisation) and works part-time with film and TV production company Edward Street Film. Bev has served on the boards of Regional Arts Australia and the Tenants’ Union of Tasmania and is excited by the opportunity to contribute to the growth and consolidation of the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre.

TREASURER
DR MEREDITH HODGSON has returned to live in Tasmania after a career in human service administration mostly in South Australia.  Her writing interests are non fiction, particularly in Tasmanian colonial history and the part Tasmania and Tasmanians have played in Antarctic exploration.  Meredith has a PhD in Management from the University South Australian and an Australian Company Directors Certificate.


MEMBERS

SARAH DAY was born in England in 1958 and grew up in Tasmania. Her 1987 collection, 'A Hunger to be Less Serious, won the Anne Elder award for a first volume of poetry in 1987 and 'A Madder Dance' was shortlisted for the NBC Banjo Awards. Poems New and Selected, was published in the UK by Arc Publications, and received a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation in the winter of 2002. Her most recent work The Ship (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2004) won the Wesley Michelle Wright Award, Melbourne University 2004; and the Queensland Premier’s Award for Poetry 2005,and was the joint winner of the Judith Wright Prize ACT National Poetry Awards. Sarah has received grants from the Literature Fund of the Australia Council and Arts Tasmania and was resident at the BR Whiting Library in Rome. Her poems have been put to music by British composer Anthony Gilbert. She has been  Poetry Editor of Island Magazine and lives in Hobart with her partner and two young daughters

RALPH WESSMAN frets over typefaces and paper stocks, publishes books of literary merit – poetry collections primarily – and, since 1987, the literary journal 'famous reporter'.

DR TERRY WHITEBEACH is a Tasmanian writer, whose published work includes two collections of poetry (her first, Bird Dream, won the Anne Elder Award), two novels for young adults, three radio plays and a cross-cultural biography.  She has worked for many years as a community artist, creative writing teacher at secondary and tertiary levels, and also as an oral historian. Whilst living in the Northern Territory she coordinated the inaugural Indigenous Creative Writing program for Batchelor Institute for Indigenous Tertiary Education and taught undergraduate Literature and Creative Writing for the Institute for Aboriginal Development in Alice Springs. Her academic qualifications include BA (English and Philosophy), MA (English) and PhD (History/Biography).  She is a member of a number of arts organizations and a current member of the ASA committee of management.

MARY JENKINS in her academic career Mary Jenkins combined literature and environmental studies with a focus on the importance - and trickery - of stories. After completing a Diploma of Education; Bachelor of Arts and Masters degrees, as a mature-age student, and a PhD at seventy, all with a literary emphasis, she continues to write essays, book reviews and, mostly, poetry. Mary's poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies. `In Tidy Town' was selected for the Best of Australian Poetry 2007 (UQP). Seasoned with Honey, a collection of poems by Mary, Lyn Reeves, Gina Mercer & Anne Collins was published by Walleah Press in 2008.  After enjoying younger years in diverse occupations, various countries and Australian mainland cities, Mary settled in Tasmania and has become active with the community of writers in Hobart.

BENNY WALTER is a writer and poet. He is the author of the Australia Council funded book Below Tree Level, and has been a guest of the Emerging Writers' Festival. He works as a manager at Fullers Bookshop and as the editor of a tiny publishing imprint, The Inscrutable Press. He welcomes coffee and conversation.

CAROLYN FISHER  grew up in Somerset, England and trained as a physiotherapist in London. She first visited Tasmania in 1986, cycling around the state and working briefly in Hobart, she fell in love with the island and after traveling and working overseas migrated to the north west coast in 1992 where she lives with her husband and two children. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals in Australia and the U.K and a number have been anthologised. Her writing has been supported by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council by the way of grants and her first chapbook collection won the Presspress award and was published in 2008.