Aside from being incredibly attractive and charismatic our writers are also terribly talented with many having been published in print and online, nationally and internationally; some are prizewinners too.
Andrew Piper is from Adelaide, South Australia, Andrew has spent the majority of his working life as a high school maths teacher but has an interest in the literary arts. He’s also done corporate and media writing for local government as well as the preparation of other official communiques for same.
Now finally venturing into short story, short short story and poetry writing and spreading and sharing his mildly questionable, but generally well thought of talents with a number of local writing groups. He has a broad interest in contemporary fiction notably Raymond Carver, Alice Munro and Julian Barnes and the short forms from Lydia Davis amongst others.
Christina Hagger – It’s all about travel for Christina Hagger. Not the destinations, but the reasons why we travel. It stems from her PhD in tourism psychology, combined with an extensive history (professional and personal) as a traveller.
Her writing explores the ways our travels help mould our identity, as we search, not just for escape, but also at times for challenge, mastery, social connections…even love. And, of course, let us not forget the all-important Bragging Rights – the travel stories we love to tell!
You can catch Dr Christina on her weekly radio program Travelling Life on Radio Adelaide 101.5 FM, as well as across Australia on the Community Radio Network, thanks to the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.
And her favourite brew – Flat White – Large!
Rose Boswell – Rose lives where the river meets the sea. She attained graduate and postgraduate qualifications before twenty five years’ work in the community services sector. Rose found her perfect match approximately twenty four times and suspended her belief in zero population growth long enough to produce four children. She loves to explore inner and outer realms through meditation, travel and occasional tarot readings, accompanied by dairy free dark chocolate.
Rose published her first book, Patchwork – A Life in 2021. For her next publishing project, Rose writes about the secrets of long term love based on interviews with a dozen fascinating couples.
Jane Russell was born in Australia but brought up in England. Luckily her whole family decided to return to Australia when she was a teenager. She was an avid book reader, and loved drawing and painting, but writing short stories started back then as well. Fiction writing replaced art when she joined a U3A Writing Group in 2012. Her preferred genre is science fiction/fantasy with a tinge of humour. Some of her stories, mainly those concerning the metallic beings from the planet Xing, have been published in Narrator Australia / Narrator International. Sadly this platform ceased operation in 2015. She is currently working on a book set 200 years in the future, hoping to finish it before then.
Sara Abend-Sims is an award-winning writer. Her poetry book, ‘Paper Storms Paper Whispers’ was published in 2020 and her poetry and short stories have been published in anthologies, magazines and online.
She is currently working on a prose book – Jones (a working title) combining short stories and a novella.
Nike Azoros studied journalism and creative writing. She has written many articles for newspapers and was editor of a business publication. She has written six books and is currently writing another novel and a non-fiction work. Her hobbies are writing and reading. When not in Australia she likes to be in Greece, writing. A member of KNWG since 2007 she believes that writers need other writers around them because, ‘they become the family that understands us when our own doesn’t.’
Anne Chappel is from Africa, long ago, which seems to tell a story in itself. More important is the fact she has been a member of KNWG since 2004 and is travelling the journey of finding her voice with the help of other writers. At first Anne wrote travel stories, travel diaries and an infrequent poem. Later she tried short stories, published a guide to a local seaside town, and her interest grew. Anne’s first novel, Zanzibar Uhuru, was published early in 2015 and the biography of her father and his African life. Time Past in Africa later in the year. She sees herself as a committed writer.
Lesley Charlesworth is from Port Augusta. Through a career in teaching and counselling she became interested in the resilience of people and the fact that many are not what they seem. These themes often appear in her work. Since her retirement she has enjoyed having the time to write and has completed a Masters in Writing through Swinburne University. Lesley enjoys writing short stories and the occasional poem and is currently revising her first novel. If you can’t find her, she has ‘gone bush’ either camping or bushwalking.
Darrell Coggins was born in Gladstone, S.A. He is a poet, artist and musician whose paintings have been exhibited extensively both in Adelaide and interstate and are held in numerous private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas. He has played guitar and bass in several successful Adelaide based blues, pop and jazz bands. Having also studied classical guitar, he is recognised as a well-established music teacher. His poetry—originally written as an art journal—reflects upon what he sees, hears and feels.
Steve Davey
There is little to tell beyond the fictions I write, unless it is to say I am one for whom the revolution never stopped, even if I did eventually cut my hair. Writing must be spare, crafted and preferably strange, in order to interest me. Unless it is the classics. Something happened in the latter years of the twentieth century. Dreams were subsumed and we were all complicit. Nevertheless, I can’t help but try to articulate lost aspirations. Forty short stories, numerous poems, five novels and a biography I may never have the skill to finish later, there are yet only minor successes. On the good side, I have two daughters and three granddaughters who all make a better fit in the world. A Persian cat talks to me and keeps me sane.
Michael Peters
Hi there,
I’m Michael and even though I am a beginning writer, I have a passion for telling and sharing stories which I have had since I was young. My genres I write in range from realistic fiction stories all the way up to comedy and even some action. I am currently working on (what I hope) is my debut novel and I write the occasional review and short story. I hope you enjoy.
Stephanie Russell has a background in physics, astronomy and satellite engineering – all very dry and technical. Her passion is to write about the other half of her soul. She explores every theme and genre she can think of, in short stories, and more recently, in poetry. She loves developing characters, imagining how they speak, act and react. She loves creating new worlds in minute detail. And she loves writing about the entertaining twists and turns in her own life as a trans-female. One of these days, with any luck, Steph will write a novel, book of poems…or something.
Kensington & Norwood Writers' Group 