Christina Houen
| Name | Christina Houen |
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| Email Address | farthestnorth1@westnet.com.au |
| Profession | life writer and editor |
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| Country | Australia |
| State | WA |
| Suburb | Doubleview |
| Address | 80 Belvedere Road, Hamersley WA 6022 |
| Website | http://memoryandyou.com; PerfectWordsEditing.com |
| Phone | 0411891743 |
| Biography | I have a Master of Creative Arts degree and a PhD in Life Writing (Curtin University 2002, 2009). After ten years of postgraduate study I am now concentrating in writing in the community, facilitating, co-writing and editing for other writers and would-be writers individually and in groups. My special interest is life writing. I am also an experienced editor of fiction and non-fiction and academic work in the Humanities. |
| Publication History | Co-editor of anthology, Hidden Desires: Australian Women Writing, Ginninderra Press 2006. Short fiction and memoirs published: ‘Seaweed Dreams’. Antipodes: a North American Journal of Australian Literature, vol. 21 no. 1, 2007, pp. 42-43. ‘Return to Arendal’, in Hidden Desires: Australian Women Writing, Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2006. ‘Escape’, in Hidden Desires: Australian Women Writing, Ginninderra Press, Canberra, 2006. Review of Lorraine McGee-Sippel, Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste?, Australian Book Review, May 2009, p. 37. Review of Jill Golden, Inventing Beatrice. Life Writing vol. 4, no. 2, 2007, pp. 321-5. And other auto/biographical articles published in academic journals. Many reviews of biography and autobiography for the West Australian, and of literary fiction and non-fiction for The Courier Mail. Current creative writing projects: The Smell of Rain, a memoir of childhood, shortlisted for the Finch Memoir Prize (2011); Impossible Love, submitted to Hachette; and a collective biography of Fairbridge single parents and their children, shortlisted for the inaugural Hazel Rowley award, 2011. |