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1 Seeking the Alchemy between Storyteller and Young Reader Sandra Symons , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , May 2019; (p. 15-16) 'When she was a child, Jennifer Rowe says she always knew she wanted to be a writer. Now the acclaimed author is committed to the development of literacy in children.'

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1 A Passionate and Committed Life Sandra Symons , 2019 single work obituary (for Judith Rodriguez )
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , May 2019; (p. 10-12) 'The esteemed Australian poet Judith Rodriguez, who died last November, was described by her friend, novelist and poet David Malouf, as “a boldly independent woman with a warm heart and a cold eye, speaking up and out in both a public and private way…increasingly politically engaged in the conflicts and contradictions and comforts of family living.”' 

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1 It’s Now Time to Bridge the Indigenous Literacy Gap Sandra Symons , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , November 2018; (p. 22-23)

'Only 34 per cent of Indigenous Year 5 students in very remote areas are at or above national minimum reading standards, compared to 95 per cent for non-Indigenous students in major cities, according to the 2017 National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN).'  (Introduction)
1 When an Acclaimed Journalist Finds Himself in the Headlines Sandra Symons , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , November 2018; (p. 12-13)

'Natural curiosity and a yearning for discovery and adventure led Peter Greste to a life reporting the headline news from around the world. But in 2013, he became headline news when Egyptian authorities arrested him and two Al Jazeera colleagues for news reporting that was “damaging to national security”. After an eventual retrial, Peter Greste was released and deported home to Australia.' (Introduction)
1 Projecting a Rebellious Voice That Gives Plenty of Lip Sandra Symons , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , May 2018; (p. 30-31)

'Award-winning novelist Melissa Lucashenko will deliver the next PEN Free Voices address on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer on November 15.' (Introduction)
1 Boxed in and Loving It Sandra Symons , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , May 2018; (p. 3-5)

'Acclaimed cartoonist Cathy Wilcox delivered Sydney PEN’s Free Voices address on the 2017 Day of the Imprisoned Writer.'
1 When Asylum Seekers Are Turned into Non-people Sandra Symons , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , November 2017; (p. 22-23)

'In 2004, Australian award-winning novelist Tom Keneally and writer and academic Dr Rosie Scott (who died in May and was featured on the cover of the Sydney PEN magazine published during the 2017 Sydney Writers’ Festival) published A Country Too Far, a collection of fiction, poetry, memoir and essays by some of Australia’s acclaimed writers exploring the treatment of those seeking asylum in Australia. A Country Too Far won the 2004 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Community Award. Ten years later they produced Another Country, a Sydney PEN anthology that includes writings by refugees and former asylum seekers.' (Introduction)
1 A Privilege Bound with a Responsibility for Accuracy Sandra Symons , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney PEN Magazine , November 2017; (p. 21)

'A love of biography is driven by the universal hunger to better understand other human lives, according to Dr Peter Cochrane. “It provides us with that sense of how things are for each of us, or indeed for the lives of people we could not begin to imagine but for the biographer’s capacity to recreate the otherness of such people and their social world.”' (Introduction)
1 Anthology a Milestone in our Literary Landscape Sandra Symons , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Pen Magazine , November 2009; (p. 8-9)
1 y separately published work icon Sydney Pen Magazine November 2009 Z1653483 2009 periodical issue
1 A Passion for Justice and Women Sandra Symons , 2007 single work obituary (for Guy Morrison )
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 October 2007; (p. 16)
1 Mary Durack's Literary Race Against Time Sandra Symons , 1979 single work biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 17 July vol. 100 no. 5169 1979; (p. 74-75)
1 Long Bloom of a Late Flowerer Sandra Symons , 1977 single work biography criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 April vol. 99 no. 5055 1977; (p. 53)
1 At Long Last, Voss Sets Out Sandra Symons , 1977 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 January vol. 99 no. 5042 1977; (p. 29-30)
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