Feature artist – Sally Breen
Dr. Sally Breen is a senior lecturer in writing and publishing at Griffith University. She is also a Griffith Alumni, achieving her Bachelor of Creative Arts and PhD, Doctor of Philosophy – Creative Writing. Through her longstanding career and involvement with the University, Sally has been involved with and founded several projects, including Smallroom Writers Collective, Talent Implied and Books for Bali. Sally is also widely published, including her 2011 creative non-fiction novel, The Casuals, (winner of the Varuna Harper Collins Award) and her 2013 neonoir novel, Atomic City. She has also worked as the Fiction Editor for Griffith REVIEW and is the current Chairperson of the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT).
Your career, in all its many shapes and pathways, has revolved around storytelling. Have you always been interested in stories? Yes. I think initially I was very interested in theatre and acting. And then I realised I wasn’t very good at acting. I’ve always been a reader and always very interested in the arts in general. And so, I think the fascination really started with a combination of getting into a lot of music, the song lyrics and the storytelling within songs. [I was] sort of fascinated with different lyrics and different bands and then that seeped into being fascinated by, particularly, David Lynch and Twin Peaks, when I
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