| Name |
Rebecca Giggs |
| Email Address |
rebecca[at]concrete[dot]org[dot]au |
| Profession |
Writer |
| Professional Services |
- Community writing facilitation
- Consultations
- Master classes
- Master discussions
- Mentoring
- Public readings
- Talks
- Workshop presentation
- Publishing
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| Areas of Work |
- Electronic multimedia
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Poetry
- Prose poetry
- Visual poetry
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| Country |
Australia |
| State |
WA |
| Suburb |
Perth |
| Website |
http://www.concrete.org.au |
| Biography |
Rebecca Giggs is a Western Australian writer working in fiction and creative non-fiction. Her current preoccupations include landscape theory, flash-fiction and spoken word. She is most inspired on public transport traversing bodies of water: trains over rivers are good, planes over the ocean are better.
Over the last four years Rebecca has been employed by both national and state-based arts bodies, including the Australia Council, Form Contemporary Craft and Design, Community Arts Network Western Australia and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia. She has been on programming advisory panels for both the Emergent Writers’ Festival in Victoria and the This Is Not Art Festival in New South Wales. Rebecca sits on the Board of the Fremantle Press and two peer-assessment panels of the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts. She has also worked in a policy capacity for a Native Title Land Council, and as a pretend patient for foreign doctors sitting their qualification examinations (when she was a very poverty-struck undergraduate).
Rebecca is most passionate about grass-roots arts collectives and maintains an active involvement with her creative collective, the ‘Concrete Organisation’, who run the popular Cottonmouth narrative project as well as the Concrete Dialogues geo-tagging website. She is also interested in Arts policy, and was a committee member of the Australian Labor Party’s Art & Culture, and Community & Social Policy Committees until the end of 2007. Rebecca holds a law degree from the University of Western Australia, and is currently enrolled in as a PhD candidate in the School of Social and Cultural Studies, writing a thesis that is in part creative fiction.
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| Publication History |
Rebecca won the Tom Collins National Poetry Award in 2006 and has previously been placed in the readers’ choice and finalist sections of the John Marsden Award for Short Fiction and the Robert A. Heinlein Prize. She has work in First Page, a book of art and words from Love Is My Velocity and Herding Kites: An Anthology of New Australian Writing 2008. In 2007 she was the Young Writer in Residence at the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in Greenmount. Her writing has been described as ‘detailed and deliberate, reflecting a poetic sensibility’, and ‘reflect(ing) the Byzantine contours of modernist writing and the playful self-consciousness of post-modern writing… putting Rebecca at the forefront of Perth literature’s creative, as well as community, development’. |
