Management Committee

Sydney PEN’s Management Committee is annually elected and brings together a collective experience and expertise across communications and human rights law, publishing and editing, journalism and media, writing and teaching.

Read our annual reports since 2006, presented at the Annual General Meeting:

• 2011 Annual Accounts and
• Management Reports by Michael Fraser AM at the AGM 10 April 2012
• 2010 Annual Accounts and
• Management Reports by Bonny Cassidy at the AGM 21 February 2011
• 2009 Annual Accounts and
• Management Reports by Bonny Cassidy at the AGM 24 February 2010
• By John Beale on behalf of Virginia Lloyd at the AGM 22 July 2009
• By Mara Moustafine at the AGM 10 June 2008
• By Angela Bowne SC at the AGM 24 May 2007

Professor Michael Fraser AM

President

Michael Fraser is a Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and Director of the Communications Law Centre, UTS. He is a Principal of Fraser Consulting and was Chief Executive Officer of Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) for twenty one years. Professor Fraser is a founding director of Australian, foreign and international copyright management companies and organisations. He is influential in changing policy and practice in Australia and internationally, to develop copyright and commerce for creators and the content industries, as well as media and communications policy in the public interest. Professor Fraser is a frequent contributor to government policy formulation and reviews in Australia and internationally and speaks regularly at national and …read the rest

Sandra Symons

Vice President

Sandra Symons is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She has a MA in International Communications from Macquarie University, and is completing a PhD at the University of New South Wales on the use of confronting images in the press. Sandra is an award-winning writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Australia’s leading metropolitan newspapers and magazines. She worked as a foreign correspondent in San Francisco for Australian Consolidated Press and edited publications for Reader’s Digest and Australian Consolidated Press as well as organisations as diverse as the Australian Museum, News Limited, Hyatt Hotels, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. She has been a contributing writer for or …read the rest

Dr Debra Adelaide

Vice President

Dr Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of more than 10 books including three novels, several anthologies, and works on Australian women’s writing. Her latest novel, The Household Guide to Dying (Sydney: Picador, 2008) has been sold into a dozen countries and was long-listed for the 2009 Orange Prize. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Carol Dettmann

Committee Member

The publisher of Chapter & Verse, a niche publisher of fine art photography and fine art books, and freelance editor. Carol has an Honours degree in American Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont and studied folklore at the University of Pennsylvania for her MA (but never wrote that last paper). She has reviewed books for the Sydney Morning Herald, written one non-fiction book, and is active in community and refugee organisations as president of the North Sydney Community Centre Board and a member of the Board of the House of Welcome.

Angelo Loukakis

Committee Member

Angelo Loukakis has worked as a writer, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and publisher. He is the author of the fiction titles For the Patriarch, Vernacular Dreams, Messenger, and The Memory of Tides. He has also written a number of non-fiction works, including most recently a book of the SBS television series Who Do You Think You Are? (Pan Macmillan 2008). His collection of short stories, For the Patriarch, was winner of a New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award. His latest novel, Houdini’s Flight, was released in June 2010 (HarperCollins Publishers). Angelo has taught writing, publishing and editing subjects at the University of Technology, Sydney and the Australian Catholic University, Strathfield. He is a past member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and …read the rest

Joel Gibson

Committee Member

Joel Gibson is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald. He is currently the opinion page editor and has covered legal affairs, indigenous affairs, youth affairs and the South Pacific for the paper. He has also written for The Chaser, HQ Magazine and Italy’s Corriere Della Sera.