Sarah Walker (Australian author)

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Sarah Walker
Born1965 (age 55–56) [1]
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
OccupationWriter, script producer

Sarah Walker (born 1965) is an Australian author, screenwriter and script producer. She has written for several serial dramas, including Home and Away , Neighbours , and All Saints . She co-created the comedy drama Wonderland with Jo Porter in 2013. Walker has also written novels and worked as a journalist and actor, appearing in Man of Flowers (1983). [2]

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Early and personal life

Walker was born and raised in Sydney. [3] As a teenager she wrote scripts, and she briefly worked as an actress. She studied creative writing while working in the magazine industry, and she has a BA Communication from the University of Technology Sydney. She was the chief subeditor of New Weekly . [1] [3]

Walker is openly lesbian and came out when she was 16. [3]

Career

Walker received a publishing contract for two novels, [3] and she wrote the coming out story The Year of Freaking Out in 1997. [4] She began her screen writing career with the serial drama Breakers . [5] Following its cancellation, she moved onto Home and Away and All Saints . [3] [4] She helped create the character Charlotte Beaumont (played by Tammy MacIntosh), who was initially a lesbian, however, when Walker left the serial, Charlotte became straight. [3] Walker has written for Neighbours , HeadLand , and A Place To Call Home . She helped develop Winners & Losers and co-created Wonderland . [3] Walker has also worked on Wentworth . [5]

In 2016, Walker received an Australian Writers' Guild nomination for "Episode 6381" of Home and Away in the Best Script for a Television Serial category. [6]

Selected credits

Books

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sarah Walker – Biography". AustLit . Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  2. ↑ "Sarah Walker". AustLit.(subscription required)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Molloy, Shannon (2 October 2016). "Where are all the gay characters on Aussie TV? Is it true 'gay doesn't rate'? Four insiders weigh in". news.com.au . Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  4. 1 2 Guertin, Lachlan (20 August 2018). "The difficulties of obtaining on-screen representation". Hatch . Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  5. 1 2 Awad, Amal (24 August 2018). "Resilience, Collaboration and Inspiration in the Writers' Room". Screen Australia . Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  6. ↑ "Full list of nominees for the 2016 AWGIE Awards" (PDF). Australian Writers' Guild. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
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