Sonya Voumard
Sonya Voumard | |
|---|---|
| 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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sonya Voumard | Deloitte Australia | Senior Manager, ICS BD". Deloitte. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ karena (9 May 2018). "SONYA VOUMARD – Skin in the Game". The Narratives Library. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Sonya Voumard". Griffith Review. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Sonya Voumard". Transit Lounge. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ "Skin in the Game by Sonya Voumard". www.readings.com.au. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ Voumard, Sonya (2008). Political Animals. Ginninderra Press. ISBN 9781740275026.
- ^ "Sonya Voumard · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- Living people
- Journalists from Melbourne
- 20th-century Australian journalists
- 20th-century Australian women writers
- 21st-century Australian journalists
- 21st-century Australian women journalists
- 21st-century Australian women writers
- University of Technology Sydney alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Technology Sydney
- Academic staff of Southern Cross University
- RMIT University alumni
- 20th-century Australian women journalists