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Born: Established: 1965 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Mycelium Sarah Walker , 2024 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 170 2024; (p. 28-30)
1 form y separately published work icon Erotic Stories Tamara Asmar , Alistair Baldwin , Christine Bartlett , Adrian Chiarella , Marieke Hardy , Sara Khan , Jean Tong , Sarah Walker , ( dir. Leticia Cáceres et. al. )agent Australia : ITV Studios Australia Lingo Pictures , 2023 26209714 2023 series - publisher film/TV Anthology series focusing on sex and intimacy, with a diverse ensemble cast.
1 Dear Lover : Sarah Walker Sarah Walker , 2023 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Dear Lover 2023;
1 3 form y separately published work icon Mother and Son Matt Okine , Sarah Walker , Tristram Baumber , Geoffrey Atherden , Australia : Wooden Horse Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2023 25573170 2023 series - publisher film/TV

'Arthur Gbeme has moved back into his Western Sydney childhood home. As he tells it, he has “put his life on hold” to care for his mum, Maggie, but the truth is, there isn’t much to put on hold. A former nurse, Maggie used to be a firebrand – a renegade. But since the death of her husband, Maggie has been… a little off. A bold re-imagining of the Australian classic, ‘Mother & Son’ is a show about ageing, migrant upbringing, changing family roles, and caring for someone you love even when they’re driving you up the wall. It’s an unapologetically hilarious comedy about a “helpless old woman” who runs rings around her adult son.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Who's Afraid? Sarah Walker , 2022 single work drama

'A wild night ensues when two couples return from a double date to confront a life-changing decision that will ignite tears, tantrums, sex and laughter. This rapidly paced, witty satire opens the door on an intimate night in the shoes of four unforgettable characters… with a contemporary riff on the classic play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf for an added twist of humour.'

Source: Production blurb.

1 form y separately published work icon The Twelve [Episode 1.10] Sarah Walker , ( dir. Daniel Nettheim ) Australia : Warner Brothers Easy Tiger Productions , 2022 25522518 2022 single work film/TV
1 Little Breaks Sarah Walker , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , September 2022; (p. 42-44)
'ONCE WE’VE PEELED OFF the wetsuits and packed up the boards, we are quiet. The car ride home is scored with the sound of sniffing, as though in grief, though it is really the ocean emptying out of our sinuses. There is no need for speech. It is a soft quiet, a golden quiet. In the driver’s seat, my partner is thinking about his turns, the way he twisted his body to pull the board against the wave, flitting up the fist of the sea. Next to him, I am thinking about how, one day, I might be able to stand up without screaming. I am what surfers refer to as a kook, which is to say: I am terrible at surfing. In every possible way, I am an embarrassment to the art of standing on the ocean. I was terrible at it when I started, and I am terrible at it now, and I love it.' (Introduction)
1 Fontanelle Sarah Walker , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 245 2022; (p. 82-85)
1 3 form y separately published work icon The Twelve Greg Waters , Sarah Walker , Brad Winters , Anchuli Felicia King , Leah Purcell , Tommy Murphy , ( dir. Daniel Nettheim ) Australia : Warner Brothers Easy Tiger Productions , 2022 23923232 2022 series - publisher film/TV crime Twelve jurors must decide on the case of a woman accused of killing a child.
1 What Is It about Sisters? : Alison Croggon’s Deeply Wounded Memoir Sarah Walker , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 430 2021; (p. 23)

— Review of Monsters Alison Croggon , 2021 single work autobiography essay

'Alison Croggon has written poetry, fantasy novels, and whip-smart arts criticism for decades, but Monsters is her first book-length work of non-fiction. In this deeply wounded book, Croggon unpacks her shattered relationship with her younger sister (not named in the book), a dynamic that bristles with accusations and resentments. In attempting to understand the wreckage of this relationship, Croggon finds herself going back to the roots of Western patriarchy and colonialism, seeking to frame this fractured relationship as the inexorable consequence of empire.' (Introduction)

1 Geography of Desire : Not Quite a Memoir Sarah Walker , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 423 2020; (p. 66)

— Review of Sky Swimming Sylvia Martin , 2020 single work autobiography
'Queer memoir is particularly given to formal play, to unpacking and upsetting the conventions of genre in order to question women's roles as both narrator and subject. Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015) mixes scholarship and bodily transformation. Carmen Maria Machado's In The Dream House (2019) unpacks the nature of narrative itself to reflect on an abusive relationship. Into this field comes Sky Swimming, Sylvia Martin's 'memoir that is not quite a memoir, more a series of reflections in which I act as a biographer of my own life'. For Martin, the critical distance of the biographer enables her to consider the resonances that exist between her own experiences. ' (Introduction)
 
1 [Review] Australian Realness Sarah Walker , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 415 2019; (p. 70)

— Review of Australian Realness Zoey Dawson , 2019 single work drama

'Australians love a bogan in pop culture. Kath & Kim broke ratings records; The Castle regularly tops lists of favourite local films. This sense of affection for the working class becomes more complex off-screen, when Aussie battlers become ‘cashed-up bogans’ and turn Queensland into a Liberal state; when they start threatening middle-class values; and especially when they gain capital and political power. Australian Realness uses the bogan stereotype as a tool to shatter the middle-class drama as both a cultural and theatrical narrative.'(Introduction)

1 form y separately published work icon Bad Mothers Rachel Lang , Gavin Strawhan , Timothy Lee , Sarah Walker , Phil Lloyd , ( dir. Geoff Bennett et. al. )agent Australia : Jungleboys , 2019 16563211 2019 series - publisher film/TV

'Bad Mothers is a fresh ensemble drama about four very different friends negotiating the perils and joys of being a modern mum: from parties to play dates, hangovers to homework, mishaps to murder.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 1 form y separately published work icon The Secrets She Keeps Sarah Walker , Jonathan Gavin , ( dir. Catherine Millar et. al. )agent Australia : Lingo Pictures Network Ten , 2019 15409942 2019 series - publisher film/TV crime

'In The Secret She Keeps, Meghan doesn’t know Agatha, but Agatha knows Meghan. Two women from vastly different backgrounds have one thing in common: explosive secrets that could destroy everything they hold dear.

'Two women have a chance encounter in a supermarket, in an affluent Sydney suburb. They are the same age, both heavily pregnant and due at the same time. Meghan (Jessica De Gouw) is a glamorous influencer on the rise, with an ambitious television sports reporter husband Jack (Michael Dorman), while Agatha (Laura Carmichael) works in the supermarket as a shelf stacker.

'Although they live near each other, the two women’s lives could not be more different…

'Agatha is a loner and barely above the poverty line. She’s ecstatic to be pregnant, pinning all her hopes and dreams on this much longed-for miracle baby. Yet the father of her child, Hayden (Michael Sheasby), a sailor on active duty, remains oblivious to her condition.

'Meghan is a sophisticated mother-of two who uses social media to reframe her imperfect life into a glossier, more aspirational existence. Despite posting enthusiastically about her pregnancy to her avid followers, including Agatha, behind closed doors this third baby is putting pressure on an already strained marriage.

'Both women have secrets. And both will risk everything to conceal the truth. But their worlds are about to collide in one shocking act that cannot be undone.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 form y separately published work icon Neighbours [Episode 7776] Sarah Walker , ( dir. Chris Adshead ) Australia : Reg Grundy Enterprises , 2018 14121445 2018 single work film/TV
1 form y separately published work icon White Rabbit Sarah Walker , ( dir. Rowan Woods ) Australia : Revlover Films , 2017 10726071 2017 single work film/TV

'A woman searches for the baby she abandoned 45 years ago and is confronted by what she discovers.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 Sarah Walker Sarah Walker , 2016 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Signed, Sealed, Delivered : From Women of Letters 2016; (p. 363-367)
1 form y separately published work icon Home and Away [Episode 6381] Sarah Walker , ( dir. Bill Hughes ) Australia : Seven Network , 2016 10270427 2016 single work film/TV
1 A Blackly Comic Expose of the Stages of Sexism Sarah Walker , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 13 July 2015; (p. 12)

— Review of We Get It Marcel Dorney , Rachel Perks , 2015 single work drama
1 25 form y separately published work icon A Place to Call Home Bevan Lee , Tony Morphett , Hamilton Budd , Rick Held , Trent Atkinson , Sarah Walker , Kim Wilson , Giula Sandler , Katherine Thomson , Brooke Wilson , Sarah Lambert , Deborah Parsons , John Ridley , John Lonie , David Hannam , Kristen Dunphy , Cathy Strickland , ( dir. Roger Hodgman et. al. )agent 2013 Australia : Channel 7 , 2012- Z1904429 2013 series - publisher film/TV 'Set in rural Australia in the 1950s, A Place to Call Home is a sweeping drama of one woman's journey to heal her soul and of a privileged family's confrontation with a changing era. A romantic saga based in the fictional town of Inverness - home to the Bligh family estate Ash Park - with a landscape as vast and dramatic as the people who live there.' (Source: http://www.throng.com.au/2012/07/new-seven-show-a-place-to-call-home/ )
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