Robert Whyte
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Robert Whyte, born in Melbourne in 1955, is an Australian author, editor and journalist. His works include the novel Manacles, 1985, influenced by Irish authors James Joyce and Flann O'Brien and a practical guide to creek restoration The creek in our back yard, 2011
In 1976 he was awarded a One Year Young Writer's Fellowship by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 1978 Planet Press, Brisbane, published the 64pp. Negative Thinking, a book of short prose pieces and drawings with poems by Peter Anderson.
In 1980, under the name Robot Wireless, he produced three small experimental books published by Australia's New Poetry editor Cheryl Adamson's Brou Ha Ha Books, From Inside the Asylum (500 copies), Life and works of Robert Wireless (100 copies) and A 3D Glimpse of the Hearing Process (with Cheryl Adamson and Hugh Ramage). In 1985 he was responsible for editing, design and layout of "Environment Victoria", the magazine of the Conservation Council of Victoria, now Environment Victoria
. In 1987 he was founding co-editor of "Eyeline" with Sarah Follent and Graham Coulter-Smith.
Robert Whyte is a co-owner of ToadShow Pty Ltd, a multimedia firm Brisbane, Queensland. He has taught new media and writing at Griffith University
, University of Queensland
and Queensland University of Technology
. During the 1980s and 90s he was a lecturer at the Australian School of Journalism, teaching the freelance journalism component.
As a web designer he was responsible for "Brisbane Stories" a collection of web sites revealing stories of hidden Brisbane featuring art, environment and history.
Robert Whyte was an editor of the The Cane Toad Times
from 1985 to 1990. Since 2002 he has been an active environmentalist, photographer and nature writer and has written and presented on biodiversity, including Spidiversity, an article published in Australasian Arachnology. In 2010 he was appointed to the position of Director, Save Our Waterways Now, a community environmental organisation restoring habitat in Brisbane's west.
In 1976 he was awarded a One Year Young Writer's Fellowship by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 1978 Planet Press, Brisbane, published the 64pp. Negative Thinking, a book of short prose pieces and drawings with poems by Peter Anderson.
In 1980, under the name Robot Wireless, he produced three small experimental books published by Australia's New Poetry editor Cheryl Adamson's Brou Ha Ha Books, From Inside the Asylum (500 copies), Life and works of Robert Wireless (100 copies) and A 3D Glimpse of the Hearing Process (with Cheryl Adamson and Hugh Ramage). In 1985 he was responsible for editing, design and layout of "Environment Victoria", the magazine of the Conservation Council of Victoria, now Environment Victoria
Environment Victoria
Environment Victoria is Victoria’s leading independent environment group. Established in 1969 as the Conservation Council of Victoria, Environment Victoria was set up by Victoria's community conservation groups to provide a single unified voice for Victoria's environment. Today, Environment...
. In 1987 he was founding co-editor of "Eyeline" with Sarah Follent and Graham Coulter-Smith.
Robert Whyte is a co-owner of ToadShow Pty Ltd, a multimedia firm Brisbane, Queensland. He has taught new media and writing at Griffith University
Griffith University
Griffith University is a public, coeducational, research university located in the southeastern region of the Australian state of Queensland. The university has five satellite campuses located in the Gold Coast, Logan City and in the Brisbane suburbs of Mount Gravatt, Nathan and South Bank. Current...
, University of Queensland
University of Queensland
The University of Queensland, also known as UQ, is a public university located in state of Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in the nation...
and Queensland University of Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Queensland University of Technology is an Australian university with an applied emphasis in courses and research. Based in Brisbane, it has 40,000 students, including 6,000 international students, over 4,000 staff members, and an annual budget of more than A$750 million.QUT is marketed as "A...
. During the 1980s and 90s he was a lecturer at the Australian School of Journalism, teaching the freelance journalism component.
As a web designer he was responsible for "Brisbane Stories" a collection of web sites revealing stories of hidden Brisbane featuring art, environment and history.
Robert Whyte was an editor of the The Cane Toad Times
The Cane Toad Times
The Cane Toad Times ISSN 0155-7157 was the name of a satirical humour magazine based in Brisbane, Queensland first published in the late 1970s, then revived under the same name by a new team from 1983-1990...
from 1985 to 1990. Since 2002 he has been an active environmentalist, photographer and nature writer and has written and presented on biodiversity, including Spidiversity, an article published in Australasian Arachnology. In 2010 he was appointed to the position of Director, Save Our Waterways Now, a community environmental organisation restoring habitat in Brisbane's west.
External links
- Robert Whyte http://www.toadshow.com.au/rob/default.asp
- Robert Whyte - Senior Writer & Director http://www.interpretivesolutions.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=1
- Writing for the Web by Robert Whyte http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/42/writing_for_the_web_by_robert_whyte/
- Speculating on Genres - Age Monthly Review, Volume 6, Number 3, July 1986 (page 4) http://www.toadshow.com.au/rob/01_cms/details.asp?ID=278
- The Politics of Publishing and Postmodernism: Robert Whyte's Manacles by Maryanne Dever and Jennifer Ash Southerly, Number 2, June 1988 http://www.toadshow.com.au/rob/01_cms/details.asp?ID=279
- Manacles, chosen by Maryanne Dever The Good Reading Guide: 100 critics review contemporary Australian fiction, compiled by Helen Daniel (McPhee Gribble Publishers, Melbourne, 1989) http://www.toadshow.com.au/rob/01_cms/details.asp?ID=280