Sonya Voumard | |
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Born | |
Occupation(s) | Writer, lecturer |
Academic background | |
Education | RMIT University (B.A.) University of Technology Sydney (M.A., D.C.A.) |
Thesis | The Power Dynamics between Journalists and their Human Subjects (2015) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Technology Sydney Southern Cross University |
Sonya Voumard is an Australian writer and lecturer who has taught non-fiction for many years at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and most recently at Southern Cross University. [1] Voumard has published one work of fiction (2008),two book length works of non-fiction and several articles for Australian newspapers,magazines and literary journals. [2] Prior to academia,Voumard spent over 20 years as a journalist working for major newspapers and magazines in Australia such as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . Voumard's academic articles have also been published in Meanjin,Griffith Review and Island. [3]
In 2015,Voumard achieved a Doctorate of Creative Arts at UTS with her dissertation titled;"The Power Dynamics between Journalists and their Human Subjects". [3]
As an author and an essayist,Voumard's work encompasses a variety of themes but specialises in the ethics of storytelling and questions of story ownership in the context of non-fiction and memoir. [4] [5]
Voumard's first work Political Animals (2008) was inspired by her time as a political correspondent for The Age in Canberra. [4]
The Media and the Massacre (2016) was long listed for both the Stella Prize (2017) and the Nita Kibble Literary Award (2018). [6] [7]
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