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This page is part of the 2008 FESTIVAL ARCHIVE.
Visit the current Melbourne Writers Festival website for details of the next festival.

Simon Cleary

Simon Cleary
Simon Cleary’s first novel is The Comfort of Fig. He grew up in a house in Toowoomba overlooking an enormous Moreton Bay fig tree and now lives in Melbourne.

After studying Literature and Law at university in Brisbane, Simon worked for many years as a public interest lawyer, including four years at Redfern Legal Centre in Sydney, and 10 years with the Legal Aid office in Queensland. In 2006, Simon was the emerging writer-in-residence at the Queensland Writer’s Centre.




Simon Cleary will be appearing:
The Whole Shebang, our intensive day-long workshop for emerging writers, gets you plugged straight into the publishing industry grid.
Between the present and the fictional past.