Monday, July 2nd 2007

Professional Me

Karen Andrews: BA (Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy), MA (Literature)
Writer and Publisher

Karen Andrews has been writing professionally for a number of years, producing a variety of material, such as book reviews, newsletters, brochures and web copy. I have also guest posted at Problogger.

Areas of Writing Interest:

Children’s Health; Literature and Wider (Pop) Culture; Blogging, Personal Narrative and Memoir.

Publications:

Academia:
Browne, K (2000) A post-Freudian interpretation of Matthew Lewis’ The Monk. Masters Thesis: Macquarie University.

Recent Selected Press:
Andrews, K (2004) ‘Birth according to plan – or not!’ Melbourne’s Child Website
Andrews, K (2006) ‘Beyond Twelve Months: What are the issues of breastfeeding the older infant?’ in Coles Baby Magazine (Summer 2006/7).
Andrews, K (2007) ‘Climate Control’ in Coles Baby Magazine (Spring 2007).
Andrews, K (2008) ‘Nappy savvy’ in Coles Baby Magazine (Autumn 2008).

Creative writing:

‘The Appointment’ was awarded the Alan Marshall Short Story Award (local division) in June 2008.
“Moving and tautly-written, every detail rings true in this piece,” Judge Cate Kennedy.

‘Hope has no expiry‘, March 2008

Surprise! (manuscript in development; due for October 2008 release by Miscellaneous Press)
Besieged (unpublished manuscript)
The Fingers of Mykolos (unpublished manuscript)
The White Sphere (manuscript in progress)
First Time Mother (manuscript in progress)