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Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Guys Read Gals Robert Kennedy , 2013- 5981673 2013 website

'Men reviewing thinking about Australian female fiction writers.'

Guys read Gals is a social experiment.

The Australian Women Writers’ Challenge was set up to promote Australian Women Writers after it seemed that they were not getting as much press as their male counterparts were.

Rob Kennedy agreed that this was an issue but then he highlighted a more important one: it seemed to be mostly women who would discuss openly online what they had read.

Did Australian men read? Were they just not discussing what they read? What did they read? And were they reading Australian female authors? Was it to do with the perception that men had that somehow reading and reviewing books was just not something important that men did or that, dare we say it, “real” men did? Whatever a “real man” is supposed to mean.

So this site was set up. Men from anywhere can join as contributors and post their reviews of Australian women writers. We want to promote the idea that men do read, should read and should also read more books by women.

Since this is an experiment and to curb the madness a tad, we want to limit it to just fiction and just Australian female authors at this point. Over time, we hope that we can expand to more genres and nationalities if we get enough people interested in reading and reviewing.

Anyone, regardless of gender or location, is free to submit op-ed pieces and articles on the topics of men reading and/or Australian female authors for our consideration.' (Source: http://guysreadgals.wordpress.com/about/ )

1 A Brief Image of Ekphrasis Robert Kennedy , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Five Bells , Spring vol. 13 no. 4 2006; (p. 5-6)
1 The Journey (Death) of a Library Robert Kennedy , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , November no. 23 2005;
Robert Kennedy writes that no major Australian library is interested in purchasing the 2,500 volumes that constitute Harold Stewart's personal book collection. Kennedy wonders about the fate of the collection - in 2005 it was for sale on e-Bay for $35,000.
1 The Journey of a Library Robert Kennedy , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , December - January no. 154 2005-2006; (p. 31)
1 Constellation i "As you walk towards Kemp's Constellation", Robert Kennedy , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry 2003; (p. 7)
1 Summer Time i "Clouds of music burn in the summer light.", Robert Kennedy , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry 2003; (p. 6)
1 Six Day War II i "From a twisted smouldering hulk", Robert Kennedy , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry 2003; (p. 5)
1 The Hill of the Creeping Shadow i "I lay down", Robert Kennedy , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry 2003; (p. 4)
1 Time Past i "People, half set back", Robert Kennedy , 2003 single work poetry
— Appears in: Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry 2003; (p. 3)
1 1 y separately published work icon Di Verse Robert Kennedy , Jill Jones , Carolyne Bruyn , Joanne Wade , Sydney : Kellyryan Press , 2003 Z1098602 2003 anthology poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon Parallel Visions : Parallel Poetry Robert Kennedy (editor), Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales , 2003 Z1098599 2003 anthology poetry
1 Two Thousand Years Before Two Thousand Years After i "Dragging a long red robe", Robert Kennedy , 1999-2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: OZpoet : The Definitive Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry 1999-2002;
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