Ben Mckelvey
Ben Mckelvey is the author of more than a dozen books, with some bearing his name on the cover, and others not. Ben is one of Australia’s most prolific ghostwriters.
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Ben Mckelvey
Ben Mckelvey is an author, journalist and editor. Ben’s books have won the Australian Independent Book Award for non-fiction, an Australian Book Industry Award and the Nib Military History Prize and they have been shortlisted in the Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Les Carlyon Literary Prize. Ben has been the editor of Mr Jones, Sports&Style and Juice magazines and worked at the Sydney Morning Herald as a Senior Feature Writer. As a freelance writer, Ben has been embedded with the ADF in East Timor and Iraq, and has worked independently in Iran, Syria and Afghanistan. His latest book is A Scar is Also Skin, and he’s a prolific ghostwriter.
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Out of the Shadows: In Praise of Ghostwriters
DATE April 6 TIME 2:30 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book nowThe Correspondent: Peter Greste in Conversation
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