Matthew Schreuder
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Matthew Schreuder is a writer born in Canada, 1971, who lives in Sydney, Australia. In 2006 his verse novel 'Muscle' was short listed and highly commended in the annual 'The Australian'/Vogel Literary Award. 'Muscle'has been commended for offering originality and a very contemporary story of astute social observations. Its characters are drawn from a youth subculture of muscle car street racers, set against a future Sydney backdrop of social unrest similar to the 2005 Cronulla riots.
Matthew Schreuder's critically acclaimed work 'Muscle' was launched on 19 November 2007 at the Leichhardt Town Hall during the 9th annual Australian Publishers & Authors Bookshow. During this launch Matthew Schreuder praised Arcadia Publishers as being the right publishers for his genre, verse novel. As well as this Schreuder and several other English teachers from Barker College engaged in a dramatic enactment which was met with an enthusiastic response from the crowd.
source: http://www.allenandunwin.com/vogel/Current.asp
see linked article listed on that webpage: 'on judging the 2006 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award' by John Dale
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External link:
Arcadia, an imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing, www.scholarly.info
