| Bibliography;
* Anthologies; * Performances;
* Residencies; * Workshops;
* More information on Tim's activities;
* Awards, Prizes, etc Poems on
this site
Awards, prizes, etc
These include Stanford Writing Scholarship, 1971; New Poetry
Award, 1973; Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for poetry,
1978; Gleebooks Poetry Sprint, 1995; grants and fellowships from
Australia Council, 1975, '77, '78, '79 and from Arts Tasmania,
1986, '92; Grand Archer Poetry Mug (Shoalhaven Poetry Festival),
2002.
Residencies
Most recently: 1993 Varuna Writers' Centre, 1994 Wagga Wagga
Writers Writers, 1995-6 LHMU (Tasmania), 1996 Writer in the Community,
Darwin NT, 1996 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston.
Workshops
These have been conducted for schools in Tasmania, Victoria and
the UK; prisons (Junee NSW and Risdon Tasmania); Community Arts
Network Youth Writing Workshops 1988-89; FAW; NSW WEA; University
of Sydney, Liverpool Hope University (UK), and a variety of adult
writers' groups, including a number of Regional Arts branches
around Tasmania (most recently for the West Coast branch as part
of the Identity Distinct project), August 2002), a series based
at the QV Museum in Launceston in 1996, and for the NT Community
Writing Program, Darwin, 1996. Writer/coordinator national project
for writers with cerebral palsy, Arts 'R' Access 1999-2000. Editor,
Launceston Longpoem (web-based community writing project) 2002.
Performances
Approx. 600 readings, including 1979 Cambridge Poetry Festival
(UK), 1985 and 1995 Tasmanian Poetry Festival, 1997 National Poetry
Festival, 1995 Spring Writers Festival (Sydney), 1997 Tasmanian
Spring Writers' Festival, 1996 Banjo Paterson Festival (Orange
NSW), 1999 Australian Poetry Festival. Reading tour of England,
March - April 1998, Shoalhaven Poetry Festival, 2002. Poems commissioned
and performed for national conferences: Australian Fertiliser
Services Association 1999, Cleaner Production in the Food and
Beverage Industry, 1999, Australian Pig Breeders National Conference
2000, Southern Cross Television Producers' Conference 2001.
Other information:
1989-2002, Managing Editor, Cornford Press (http://www.cornfordpress.com)
1986-2002, weekly columnist, Hobart Mercury
1985-2002, Launceston correspondent, Overland
1985-2001, Director, Tasmanian Poetry Festival
1994-2000, Member, Launceston Festivale Committee (Chair, 1997-1999)
1997, Tutor in Creative Writing, University of Tasmania
1997, Board member, Tasmanian Writers Centre
1997, Regional coordinator, Tasmanian Spring Writing Festival
1993-96, Member, editorial board, Red Jelly (Tasmanian Arts Council)
1994, Cultural planning consultant to Launceston City Council
1988-94, Tamar Regional Community Arts Officer
1991-93, Member, Executive Committee, Tasmanian Arts Industry
Council
1989-93, Community Arts Sector representative on Tasmanian Arts
Industry Training Board 1987-93, Member, Board of Directors, Tasmanian
Community Arts Network (Chair '90-'93)
1990-92, Convener, Network Community Writing Sub-committee
1989-1991, Member, Literature Panel, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board
1986-89, Member, Tasmanian Community Literature Officer Management
Committee
1986-88, President, Northern Tasmanian branch, FAW
1986-87, Editor, Fast Track (a yearbook of poetry by Tasmanian
Secondary College students)
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