Lynn Gumb
| Name | Lynn Gumb |
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| Email Address | info@thestorytellerconsulting.com.au |
| Profession | writer and teacher |
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| Country | Australia |
| State | WA |
| Suburb | Bassendean |
| Website | http://www.thestorytellerconsulting.com.au |
| Phone | 0414887623 |
| Biography | Lynn has been an English, Theatre Arts and Speech & Drama Teacher, Lawyer, Policy Maker, Speechwriter for a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Chairperson of the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre. She holds a Master of Arts and has won awards for her short stories including the AIHA Joe O’Sullivan award for fiction. |
| Publication History | PUBLICATIONS 2010 AIHA Journal "Irish Remnant" 2008 AIHA Journal “Jacket Women” 2006 Emerge: New Australian Writing Anthology “No Family Resemblance” The Word is Out Poetry Journal 2“The Honeyeater” 2003 MARGINATA literary magazine “Sunsplit” a short story “The Honeyeater” a poem “You Don’t Know: a letter to a daughter” a short story “Targets of Opportunity” a poem 1996-2000 Case head notes The State Reports, Western Australia; summarising Supreme & District Court, and various tribunal judgments, for publication. 2000 - Various publications as speechwriter/research assistant for former Chief Justice of Western Australia. WRITING AWARDS 2010 Highly Commended Joe O’Sullivan Writers Prize, Australian Irish Heritage Association For "Irish Remnant" 2008 First Prize – Joe O’Sullivan Writers Prize, Australian Irish Heritage Association For “Jacket Women” 2006 Bobbie Cullen Memorial Award Curtin University of Technology – awarded for MCA Research Project For “No Family Resemblance” Australian Association of Writing Programmes for “No Family Resemblance” Commended - Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre Short Fiction Award For “Nigger Box” OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS 2008 Who’s Who Western Australia Entry |