About Us
Words@Deakin is a group of Deakin University students in Literary Studies and Creative Writing at the Waurn Ponds campus, working together with two staff members, Dr Maria Takolander and Associate Professor David McCooey.
In 2011 we are:
EDITORS
Mitch Cunningham studies and writes out of Deakin, Waurn Ponds, and has appeared in Windmills, Verandah, Voiceworks and Ekleksographia. Mitch has worked with Courthouse Arts, as well as the Please Welcome Gallery, Words@Deakin and SUB. He is currently completing his Honours thesis on the films of David Lynch.
Claire Duffy co-edits Windmills and Imagine, and in 2009 she co-edited Verandah. She completed a BA Honours and has begun a PhD researching literature and feminist humour. She will create a suite of humorous short stories that draw on her life experience in suburban Australia and from her observations of curious human behaviour.
Jo Langdon is a literary studies PhD candidate and casual tutor at Deakin University, Geelong. Her published fiction and poetry includes work in Mascara Literary Review, Page Seventeen, Wet Ink, and Voiceworks. Jo also co-edits Deakin's literary zine, Windmills.
Alyson Miller teaches literary studies at Deakin University, Geelong. She recently completed a PhD in scandalous literature and is a co-editor of Deakin’s literary zine, Windmills. Her poetry and short fiction has been published in Staples, Verandah and Groundworks.
Jessica Walter is an Honours student at Deakin University, currently completing a creative thesis on Alice in Wonderland. She is co-editor of Deakin’s literary zine Windmills, writes short stories about killing rabbits and about strange men in train stations, and has been known to leave a trail of snacks wherever she goes.
Bianca Weller is a third year Professional and Creative Writing student at Deakin University. In her spare time she reads copious amounts of literature, writes clichéd poetry and rallies for better rights for cat-lovers around the world. She hopes to satisfy her voracious literary appetite by becoming a book editor after uni.
ILLUSTRATORS
Sarah Allen spends her time finding new and inventive ways to destroy her iPhone. Most recently she let her iPhone go swimming in a bowl of minestrone soup. Inevitably proving the iPhone is resilient to soup. She is currently studying an Arts degree, but spends way too much time testing the warranty of her iPhone ...
Jamie King-Holden lives in Geelong and studies literature at Deakin University. Her first book of poetry, Chemistry, was published by Whitmore Press in 2011. Her poetry has appeared in Antipodes, Dotdotdash, Eureka Street, Ekleksographia and Verandah. She was shortlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize in 2010 and was guest emerging writer for the Mildura Writers festival in 2011. Jamie co-edits the literary zine Windmills.
Kathryn Rowan is a Professional and Creative Writing student who didn’t really like reading until she was forced to read Harry Potter when she was in year 7. She gets a little too much pleasure out of finding mistakes in others people’s work, but hates finding them in her own.
Words@Deakin, in addition to managing the Imagine project, is involved in a number of other activities, including the literary zine Windmills.
