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Merlene Fawdry is a writer and poet who now lives in Victoria, Australia. Her professional background includes 25 years working at the coal face of youth and family services in Victoria, working proactively towards de-institutionalisation of young people and family reconciliation. Merlene was employed within both the public and private sector of human services, in direct service and in program and policy reform and development. She has qualifications in Counselling and Small group Work; Youth Work; Alcohol and Other Drug Work; Certificate IV in Professional Writing & Editing and will complete her Diploma of Professional Writing & Editing in June 2006.
Additional to writing, her interests are in social justice and reconciliation for all people who have experienced interference in their lives through legislated power and authority, particularly those who spent their childhood in the institutions of the last century. A shy activist, Merlene is committed to giving a voice to the oppressed through her writing and, with a keen interest in environmental issues, she uses her poetry to speak out against what she sees as government endorsed decimation of her island state.
She released The Little Mongrel - free to a good home in April 2007. an autobiographical account of her childhood spent as an adoptee and inmate of institutions in Victoria and Tasmania.
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MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Short Stories
Boating on the Tamar On The Tide - Spectrum Magazine
Perpetual Endurance Reprinted in On The Tide Anthology 2005
Memories of Royal park
Earthly rewards
Sideshow Alley
Winner of the Betty Ncholson Short Story Award 2006 - The Last Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Winner Melton Leader Short Story competition 2007 - Kinankurnunk - the day after - Skive Magazine 2004-5
The Accidental Mariner
Going Bush
Grandparent’s day
The Circle of Life
The Grand Monarch
Memories of sandy Beach
Bush Change
A Dog’s Life You are Going Home anthology 2005 - Prose
Visitors Famous Reporter #31 2005
Poetry
Triazine Mist Australian reader 2004-5
Leviathans of the Styx
Duplicity
Autumn Stylus Magazine 2004
Ageless - City Father - winner Borderlines Poetry Competition 2007
Sky Over Styx - Australian Writer 2007
Child Groom - Highly Commended - Yarram city Poetry Competition 2007
Drought and Aah! - pendulum 2007
Poetry
I Used to Dance City Park Radio 2003
Mother Love
Visitors
Prose
Excerpt from unpublished University of Ballarat 2002
Manuscript Great
Western Tiers
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MY RESIDENCE INFO:
City: Melton West
State/Country: Victoria
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BOOKS PUBLISHED:
 The Little Mongrel - free to a good home
by
Merlene Fawdry
ISBN: 978-0-9802845-2-2
RRP: $29.95 AUD
www.fixwrite.net
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