Lisa Dempster Lisa Dempster i(A122760 works by)
Gender: Female
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'Lisa Dempster is the Festival Director at Melbourne Writers Festival. Previously she was the Director of Emerging Writers’ Festival (2010 – 2012), and founder of its innovative online programming arm, EWFdigital (now Digital Writers’ Festival). In 2012 she curated an exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Future Bookshop, which explored how Australians will be reading, writing and publishing in the future, and undertook an Asialink residency with the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali. Lisa is a professional writer and editor, and formerly worked as a small press publisher, running indie outfit Vignette Press for five years before selling it in 2011. Lisa has been a lifelong bookworm, and has travelled widely in search of literary and other adventures.' (Source : http://mwf.com.au/writer/lisa-dempster/ )

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Personal Awards

2014 recipient Creative Industries Career Fund to attend the Atelier for Young Festival Managers Poznan 2014, and receive tutelage and mentoring by ten senior international festival managers.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Neon Pilgrim Footscray West : Aduki Independent Press , 2009 Z1620029 2009 single work single work autobiography 'Unfit and unmotivated, Dempster was an unlikely candidate for a gruelling outdoor adventure. But in 2008 when her life needed a shake-up, she decided to hike the henro michi, a 1200 kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan. Her transformation from overweight dole bludger to intrepid explorer is a witty and fascinating insight into the famed 88 Temple Pilgrimage.' (Publisher's blurb)
2018 longlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Autobiography / Biography / Memoir

(for 2017 edition)
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