John Bartlett
Writer (Geelong, VIC)

John Bartlett brings thirty years of experience in the field of community development in both Southeast Asia and Australia to his current writing projects. He formerly worked for nine years as a Catholic priest in the southern Philippines.

For the last two years his features and profiles have focused on social issues and politics and been published in The Age, The Canberra Times, Good Weekend, The Big Issue and Eureka Street.

He is currently researching a non-fiction book, Changing Direction Mid-Stream, which relates the stories of men re-making their lives after redundancy or major life crisis.

His fiction manuscript, Archipelago-Islands of the Heart tells the story of a young idealistic Australian priest who works in the Philippines during the Marcos era, who must fight for his own survival against increasingly violent political and military events.

John teaches creative writing in Geelong and works as a freelance editor and numbers among his clients Deakin University and The City of Greater Geelong. Recently his short story 'Hey, True Blue' was a winner in the 2004 Midsumma Festival, Melbourne and his story 'Belladonna' published in the first edition of Splatter Magazine. He writes regularly for The Geelong Times and performs his poetry and stories in public.

John is interested in connecting with other like-minded writers and artists. He is also interested in producing documentaries

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