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Joan Lane (January 1996)


          Fellow  of  International  Biographical  Association.  (Eng)
         

          Now lives in  South  Bundaberg after recently returning from
          West Australia where  she  was  editor  of the Mandurah City
          Arts Council bi-monthly  magazine.  In 1990 her play won the
          Elaine Blake Award and in 1993 was runner-up in the Mandurah
          City Arts Festival.

          She was Co-ordinator  of  the  Mandurah  and Coastal Writers
          Group  for 3  years.  Edited  The  New  Decade  in  1990,  a
          bi-annual book containing  a  collection  of  Aust.  writers
          poems and short  stories,  getting  some poems published (in
          Anthologies etc) and several plays performed.

          She currently works  as  editor  of  the  Australian Writers
          Journal,  a  bi-annual   publication   of  a  collection  of
          Australian writers short stories, poems and plays.

          She   is   married    with    four   adult   children,   her
          hobbies/interests, outside of writing, are music, handcrafts
          and travel.

          Her   credentials   include   certificates/diplomas   Social
          Science, Aust. School of Journalism, Aust. Writing School.