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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.