"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness"  Allen Ginsberg.


  SHARON RUNDLE   ~   BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
                                           
Sharon and Meenakshi
                         
                                       
Sharon and Helen
                     



With Dr Meenakshi Bharat in Delhi, Sharon is currently co-editing a collection of exciting stories titled "Blood Will Have Blood" by authors from Australia and the Indian Subcontinent to be published by Picador India in November, 2008.

Sharon has been invited to visit India in January, 2009, to speak about and promote understanding of ties between Australia and India in contemporary literature. She will read from her own works and from the anthology, "Blood Will Have Blood"; as well as from collaborative collections of stories and essays by leading Australian and Indian authors. She has invitations to speak from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi and The Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. For both these talks, invitations will be sent to other constituent colleges of the University of Delhi, the Jamia Milia Islamia University and other local institutions.

Sharon's latest short story, Cherryulla appears in Encounters Modern Australian Short Stories, edited by Barry Oakley, published Five Mile Press.

 2008 Season of Inspiration ~ next course is October 6, 2008 ~ Sharon and Helen's popular International Interactive Fully Online Creative Writing Course Season of Inspiration at the new course space at www.reachfurther.com/learning

This is a popular course that attracts writers from around the globe.
Contact us at info@newmediawriting.com for more information or to register. You can find more information about the course at Season of Inspiration
and www.newmediawriting.com



Sharon is Co-ordinator of the University of Technology Writers' Network and E-Community and Editor of the monthly UTS Writers' Network E-zine.

Sharon is currently lecturing the University of Technology Sydney Bachelor of Education subject Using IT for Learning at the city campus.

She is a member of E-Learning and Knowledge Sharing [ELKS] which is a United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Development (UNGAID) Community of Expertise. This e-community is convened by Helen Whitehead, with Professor Gilly Salmon as special guest in the forum.

She is also a member of  Blended Learning and Instruction

She has taught Writing, English and ESOL Courses at TAFE OTEN and is now on the English Assessment Panel; she has also taught ESL, English, Professional and Creative Writing courses at The Central Coast Community College for the past fifteen years. She is a recipient of an Award for 15 years Service to the Learning Community. (Australia).

She provides a manuscript consultancy through the global Round Table Writing Manuscript Consultancy Service.

Sharon taught Creative Writing Courses at General, Intermediate, Supplementary, Advanced and Post-Course Portfolio levels from 1993 until 2006 for the Institute of Modern Languages at James Cook University of Nth Qld.

She has tutored Online Writing Courses for international students at the trAce writing school  Nottingham Trent University in the UK, as well as facilitating the trAce Online Writers’ Workshop and the very popular Summer School.

In 2002 she graduated with a Bachelor of Education in Adult Education with a major in Language, Literacy and Numeracy from the  University of Technology, Sydney.

She was awarded the UTS Faculty of Education Sydney Mechanics School of Arts medallion and prize for superior academic studies and adult education practice.

Sharon has an accredited Certificate Level IV in Workplace Training and Train the Trainer.

She completed Online Teaching and Learning Certificate Courses at TAFE OTEN (Australia) and The Nottingham Trent University (UK), to teach online courses and to facilitate online learning communities.

She studied Creative Writing at James Cook University of Nth Qld for six years. After graduating, in 1992, she was offered a position of tutor at JCU to teach their Distance Learning Creative Writing Courses, which she tutored for fifteen years.

Sharon continues to explore the craft of writing and has studied with authors, playwrights and poets such as Stephanie Dowrick, Joyce Reiser Kornblatt, Sue Woolfe, Patti Miller, Timothy Daly, Richard Tipping, Jean Talbot and Norman Talbot.

She has co-authored two books on writing, titled Round Table Magic [2002] and Round Table Writing [1998].

Her work has been published in Australia and overseas, in newspapers, magazines, literary journals, anthologies, e-zines and CDs; and has been reviewed in metropolitan newspapers. She has written regular columns and articles for independent rural newspapers.

Sharon contributed to Desert In Bloom ~ Contemporary Indian Women's Fiction in English  [hardcover, Pencraft International, India. 2004]

"A corroborative critical role is performed by the dynamic perceptions of Australian Sharon Rundle, the 1998 Commonwealth short story regional award winner, who analyses what it means to be a woman writer; the responsibilities and the problems that come with it ... In this context, she praises Sujata Sankranti and her   The Warp and the Weft and Other Stories for 'her valuable contribution to international literature with her sensitive storytelling.'"
Meenakshi Bharat, from the Introduction to Desert in Bloom
www.pencraftinternational.com

Desert in Bloom  reviewed in The Hindu

In 1996 she was commissioned to write style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">Changes & Chances, the first twenty years of the Central Coast Women's Health Centre (published NSW Dept of Health, 1997).

Mountain and Valley Echo, her collection of interviews and researched articles on the Mangrove Mountain Districts and its people was published in 1994 by the Wyong Historical Society & Museum with assistance from Wyong Council.
The Newcastle University Library, Mountain and Valley Echo

For the past fifteen years, Sharon has judged Australasian Literary Competitions.

Another insight into the world of the writer that Sharon enjoys is her work as a Manuscript Consultant. She specialises in developing fiction works-in-progress with Australian and international authors, particularly those writing in Indigenised Versions of English and Global Englishes. This entails reading manuscripts in various states of preparedness for publication and assessing and identifying common faults and flaws in manuscripts, as well as the prose that sings and is a joy to read. Through this and other writing work she has made firm friends all around the world.

ROUND TABLE WRITING MANUSCRIPT CONSULTANCY

In 1993 Sharon was made a Fellow of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.

She is currently Co-ordinator of the UTS Alumni Writers' Network

Editor of the UTS Writers' Network Monthly E-zine

E-Moderator for UTS Alumni Writers' Network E-Community

A Partner of Season of Inspiration Writing Courses

A member of

UN Global Alliance for ICT Development (UNGAID) Community of Expertise:
E-Learning and Knowledge Sharing [ELKS] - Invited Member
Professional Member of the Society of Editors NSW, inc.
Institute of Professional Editors - Full Member
Australian Society of Authors - Full Member
UTS Alumni
The British Council Alumni
Varuna, The Writers' House
The Pencil Orchids Writers' Group,
The Company of Writers
 Blended Learning and Instruction
View my page on Blended Learning and Instruction

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