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Rae Luckie, Luckie Consulting Services
ABN: 38 577 346 871
PO Box 3167, Batehaven NSW 2536
Tel: (02) 0402 979 642
Email: r.luckie@bigpond.com

Experience: Rae is currently a lecturer in education at University of Wollongong’s Batemans Bay Campus. She has 12 years as a creative writing teacher and mentor and specialises in community projects. She teaches creative writing at University of Wollongong’s Shoalhaven Campus summer session. Community projects include: Once Upon a Time in Mosman: Intergenerational Biography Project for Schools (for Mosman Council Library); Kirrawee Stories (for Planning NSW Living Centres Program); Epicorma (Kiama Crisis Resource Project); Kiama Stories (Kiama Council Cultural Grant); Searching for Memories: Return to the Burma-Thai Railway. Mentorship/editing projects include: Metaphysically Blue (Geraldine Fennell); Suzannah’s Gold (Carol Preston); Bluebells and Cherry Blossom:A Kentish Childhood (Joy Bedson); Quirky Tales and Tidbits (Enid McLean); Mission Doctor to the New Hebrides (Dr Ted Freeman). Rae has judged short story writing competitions for Port Macquarie and Shoalhaven FAW. Her work has been published in: What Is Mother Love (2008) edited by Selwa Anthony and Selena Hanet-Hutchins (Penguin); Illness in the Academy (2007) edited by Kimberley Myers (Purdue University Press); Best Australian Stories 2004 edited by Frank Moorhouse (Black Inc); Stories from the Shed (1996) edited by Mark Thomson (Angus and Robertson); three works in No Thanks or Regrets (1996) edited by Jacqueline Kent; and Queen of Crime 2001 (winning entry) edited by Del Mutton. Among My Souvenirs was broadcast on Radio National in 2006.

Qualifications: PhD (Writing Women’s Lives), BA (Applied Communication and Social Sciences), MA (Communication and Cultural Studies), Graduate Diploma in Education (Adult).

Computer capability: Mac and PC; Microsoft Word; Adobe Photoshop, InDesign; scanner; colour laser printer.

Services offered: Manuscript assessment for development; structural editing; individual mentoring, writing workshops and facilitation of community writing projects (throughout NSW); editing of memory books.

Type of material: Non-fiction and fiction. Non-traditional works that incorporate photographs and other visuals.

Subject specialities: Realist fiction, historical novels, auto/biography, memoir, family history and hybrid forms that cross generic boundaries.