Biography

Love of writing, theatre and dramatic arts led Anita to write prize-winning play A Light Vision for a city council competition. Other successes include radio drama produced by ABC Radio National Come with me on a Fantastic Journey and The Return and Educational books Presenting the Curriculum–Addison Wesley Longman and Drama Across the Curriculum–Longman Cheshire.

Anita juggled writing with school-teaching, directing and performing in plays and running drama-in-education workshops for teachers. The play Greetings from Retaw sponsored by the E&WS water board, toured primary schools for two seasons and Woman in Black was performed by women’s theatre group Vitalstatistix as a script-in-hand performance and included in the Adelaide Hills Drama festival.

Anita’s final involvement in drama-in-education was co-directing a national drama conference (NAADIE). Later a more relaxed lifestyle teaching yoga and meditation within her Counselling Extra-Much More Than Talk business gave opportunity to write for wellness. Reigniting a passion for fiction in writers’ groups she started the writing cooperative Create-Write with a writer friend. Short stories for the Writing Keepsakes anthology and memoir Fragments in Time followed. Another memoir Lessons From the Pidge is in the wings.