Marjorie Darling Ward

MARJORIE DARLING WARD retired journalist and one time part-owner three country newspapers, editor, hotelier, Riverina farmer, real estate sales person. Writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, stage plays, published mainstream media, Australia and New Zealand, The Age, Westerly, Melbourne Times, Pacific Publications, Herald and Weekly Times, ABC Radio National; contributing author to anthology Fictions 88 (selected by Frank Moorhouse); multi-winner national literary short story awards; five books, Cast a Pebble in the Ocean (published Loch Haven Books) and Singing the Country (published A.M.Printing for Tamworth Country Music Festival), Cry Me A River (Pub. Amazon), Things You Can't Leave Behind (Pub. Amazon); consultant to script writing program for Department of Human Services; stage play The Whipping Act performed at Athens University as part of International Women Playwrights' Conference 2000. New book—a murder mystery—due for publication at end of June 2015.