Dr SALLY BREEN has been writing and publishing creative non-fiction and stories since the early-nineties. Her work has appeared widely in national and international journals and anthologies, with features in Asia Literary Review, Meanjin, Open Road Review, The Age, Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, The Guardian London, Veranda, Overland, The Australian, Hemingway Shorts and Griffith Review. She is a regular contributor to The Conversation. In 2009 Sally won the Varuna Harper Collins manuscript prize for her memoir The Casuals. She went on to sign a two book deal with Harper Collins which saw the release of The Casuals in 2011 and her debut novel Atomic City in 2013 – shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Book of the Year People’s Choice in 2014.
Sally has a wide ranging interest in the arts and has been actively involved in various ventures and initiatives. While studying in the nineties Sally set up The Arc, a multi-arts venue on the Gold Coast. In Brisbane, in the early new millennium, Sally founded Burn Writers Collective. Burn ran Writing The Fringe Festival, a bad sister event to the Brisbane Writers Festival. Sally now actively supports and mentors young writers via Smallroom Writers Collective on the Gold Coast. She is a board member of the Regional Arts Development Fund for the Gold Coast City Council and director of Books for Bali. Sally is Executive Director of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing at Griffith University, and is a 2019 Griffith Review Writing Fellow. She is currently working on various book projects including a new novel and a collection of creative non-fiction. Sally lives on the Gold Coast.
