JACQUELINE
KENT
Sydney based author Jacqueline Kent has worked
as a journalist, radio producer and scriptwriter, and book
editor and is the prizewinning author of adult non-fiction
and young adult books. Her biography of a pioneering Australian
book editor, A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary
Life, won the 2002 National Biography Award, as well
as the Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers and was also
shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award. She has also published Out
of the Bakelite Box: The Heyday of Australian Radio,
a social and oral history of Australian radio and In
the Half Light: Life as a Child in Australia 1900-1970 which
consists of reminiscences of people from all walks of life,
with emphasis on events and personalities in Australian life
seen through a child's eyes. She has also 'ghosted' the autobiographies
of Tom Uren, Helen Caldicott, Graham Richardson and Lindy Chamberlain.
   
Her books
for young adults are Angel Claws I Love You, Bad Behaviour (stories
with Joanna Horniman), and four novelisations
of episodes from the popular ABC-TV Heartbreak High series.
She is currently preparing for a Doctorate of Creative Arts at
the University of Technology, Sydney, and her most recent books are An Exacting Heart: The Story of Hephzibah Menuhin, and a timely biography, The Making of Julia Gillard.
 
Jacqueline
has worked extensively with students from years 7 to 12, presenting
creative writing classes and mentor programs. She has been a
writer in residence at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
and also a guest speaker at various schools and conferences in
the Sydney metropolitan area. Her expertise lies in the areas
of history, biography, life writing and oral history. She enjoys
giving workshops for large or small groups, talking about ways
in which history is made, how stories become facts and how to
make facts 'interesting'.
 
Jacqueline
offers the following programs for students:
Author
talks
Oral history: how it works, what it does, how to use it
Writing Biography / Biography: Fact and Fiction
Stories: how they become facts, and vice versa
History and the movies / Biography and the movies
Workshops
Journal writing / Keeping a Diary
Scriptwriting for movies and TV
Making facts into stories
Telling stories from various points of view
Supporting
HSC syllabus
How history is made
How history has been recorded
The media and history/biography
Writer
in Residence programs
Working with groups of varying sizes - from one-on-one to larger groups - in
journal and diary writing, script writing, story preparation and editing, exercises
in fact/fiction writing.
For more information visit www.jacquelinekent.com.au
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