Author of contemporary womens fiction, The Crushing Season and romantic comedy, Feral Bells which won the Queensland Arts Council's New Regional Writer Scholarship. Second novel due out in early-2014. Available for writing workshops, lectures, panel guest, signings, etc.Guest speaker at Hervey Bay Library November 2015.Guest author at Bundaberg Crush Festival's Whispers Salon October 2015.Launch of The Crushing Season Bundaberg Library October 2015. Judge for the Roma Writer's Group Margery Grieve Short Story Writing Competition 2013. Guest speaker at Fraser Coast Libraries' Home Grown Literary Day, October 2012.Book tours throughout Queensland (throughout 2012) and also two-week tour through New South Wales and Victoria (September-October 2012)Guest speaker at Bundaberg Library, May 2012.Guest speaker at Inaugural Indie Authors Festival on the Gold Coast, October 2011.Weekly blog posts at petajo.com. My first love is revealed here... writing out my silliness, my transgressions and anything else that cannot be contained inside my skull.Have written for Mamamia.com, iVillage.com, MumsLounge.com.au, ChickLitClub.com and InternationalChickLitMonth.com.(See more work history under "Peta Whitney Publishing Services")

Featured writer on Mamamia.com - http://www.mamamia.com.au/relationships/some-wives-get-paid-to-have-sex/Featured writer on Digital Parents - http://digitalparentsblog.com.au/2011/12/curbing-cultural-platforms/Guest speaker at the inaugural Festival of Independent Authors and Publishers on the Gold Coast, October 2011.Winner of Kleenex Mum's inaugural So You Think You Can Blog competition in 2011 - http://www.kleenexmums.com.au/me-time/blog/best-mums-blog-posts/Lecturer on news writing for The Drift - a community publication based in Lowood/Fernvale. Two day workshop on interviewing, news and feature writing and editing. (2006)Guest lecturer in creative writing at UQ Ipswich in 2006.

APN multimedia director and producer handling content for regional daily newspapers to design, copyedit and proofread where needed. I work remotely on sites from Lismore to Mackay and everywhere in between. Also monthly columnist as "Mumma Bare" in syndicated Family Life page published throughout Queensland and New South Wales

Included 12 months as editor of The Ipswich Advertiser (during which time we were APN's fastest growing community newspaper); acting editor of national trucking newspaper, Big Rigs; various roles on TV, cars, lifestyle supplements.Reported on variety of issues from celeb interviews to politics to sports. Highlights: series of articles on abused children from state institutions resulted in greater victim compensation for one man; covering CJC (prior to CMC) investigation into electoral rorting (Shepherdson inquiry).Received Queensland Country Press Association's award for Most Improved Newspaper in 2001(?) while chief-reporter for The Ipswich Advertiser.