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Diane Brown convened writers' workshops with the Women's Art Movement (SA) in 1979 and in 1981 she founded what became in 1983 the Association of Country and City Writers (SA). She was a founding member of Tantrum Press 1987-1994, and a member of Sybylla Feminist Press in the late 1990s until its closure in 2003. She was an invited guest to the New Zealand Women's Book Festival in 1991, hosted by the Australia and New Zealand Foundation. She studied Arts Administration in Adelaide, and completed a Graduate Diploma in Publishing at the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, in 1997. In 1998 she was given a Postgraduate Award by the Department of Communication, Language and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Technology, to research and write a PhD, 'Publishing Culture: Commissioning Books in Australia, 1970-2000'. As well as poetry and short stories Diane writes reviews and has published papers on women's writing and feminist publishing.