Our emerging writers program, Text Camp, is in full swing. Many Text Campers have even begun writing about Next Wave within their mentors’ publications already. Get to know our Text Camp writers and look out for their insights on NWF 2012 in Real Time, The Blackmail, Ampersand, Art Guide, The Thousands and Crikey.

 

REBECCA HARKINS-CROSS

Rebecca Harkins-Cross is a freelance arts writer and critic based in Melbourne. Her work has appeared in such publications as Meanjin, The Big Issue, Crikey, The Lifted Brow, Filmink and Senses of Cinema.

The comeback of arts criticism: new spaces for new ideas - Crikey

Shorten, music appreciator, flags long service for artists - Crikey

By design, not circumstance, a push for recognition – Crikey

Why are our theatres empty of women? - Crikey

 

JANE HOWARD

Jane Howard is a freelance arts writer, critic, blogger, and researcher from Adelaide. She has been blogging as No Plain Jane since 2009, and currently writes for several print and online publications. Her work has a particular interest in Adelaide’s independent performing arts community, and how this feeds into a wider Australian ecology.

Critical dialogue about critical voices – No Plain Jane

The human automaton revealed – Real Time

 

ANABELLE LACROIX

Anabelle Lacroix is an Independent Curator. Originally from France she has been involved in the Melbourne arts scene for the past year, writing exhibition catalogues for local artists and publishing in UN. Lacroix has co-curated So you Say at Westspace (2012) and is currently a committee member at Kings ARI.

 

NAOMI GALL

Naomi Gall is a freelance writer and creator of the art blog The Near & The Elsewhere. She has written for Artlink, Art Monthly, runway, Incubate, art art art (online) & a-n Magazine in the UK. In 2011 Gall was the recipient of the Firstdraft Emerging Arts Writers Program.

 

SAM WEST

Sam West is a fiction writer, art enthusiast and all-round nice guy. A recent graduate from Melbourne University’s Creative Writing Publishing and Editing Masters program, Sam has written for likes of The Thousands City Guides and Desktop Magazine. He also blogs short fiction at smartinshort.blogspot.com and recently regressed back to childhood in an art installation on Bourke Street.

 

MELISSA DEERSON

Melissa Deerson is a Melbourne-based writer and artist who works with text, papier mache, found objects, photography and drawing. She is interested in gravity, levity, things that look like other things, urban myths and digging.