Amanda le Bas de Plumetot is a member of the Lazy River Writers, a regular performer at the Belgrave Word Tree, and a founding member of the Belgrave Friday Group where she’s been workshopping since 1999. She has a Diploma of Writing for Children and a Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing and Editing. On the 26th of March she was declared Woorilla Poet of the Dandenongs 2006.

Performances:

• Drouin Ficifolia Festival, February 2008
  
• Industry Overview, Chisholm TAFE Berwick and Frankston, February 2008
  
• Drouin Ficifolia Festival, February 2007
• speaking at Industry Overview classes for Chisholm TAFE, February 2007
  
• Visiting writer to Gembrook Primary School, August 2006
  
• Poets' Breakfast, Emerald PAVE April 2006
  
• Wordworks at Warby April 2006  
• The Word Tree, regular open mic attendee, irregular MC
• Wasteland poetry reading at Pivotal Gallery; poetic interpretation of Steve Warburton's artworks, part of the Overload Festival 2005
  
• Scots Harbour at Queen of Tarts with LRW, part of the Overload Festival 2005
• Montsalvat Red Room 2004
  
• Ice Cream @ 3am second serve 2003
  
• 3RRR, invited to read short story
• 3MDR a couple of times
• pendulum launch 2003
• MC of Shorts launch 2003
• Ice Cream @ 3am Secnes across the city, Frankston Arts Festival 2003
• Montsalvat Red Room 2002
  

Short stories published in:

• Slippery When Wet
• Page Seventeen
  
• The Best Australian Stories 2006
• Tarralla
  
• australianreader.com
  
• Bukker Tillibul
  
• Going Down Swinging
  
• Page Seventeen
• Woorilla
• Reid's Magazine
  
• Verandah
• pendulum
• That's Life! Fast Fiction
• A House Full of Mirrors
• Slippery When Wet
• Splatter
• Shorts
• tamba
• Holding Two Fingers in the Air
• The Mod-Piece
• Briefs
  
  
  
  Poetry published in:
  
  
• autumn 2008 Moving Galleries
  
• Cordite
  
• Best Australian Poems 2005
  
• The Mozzie
• Woorilla
• Phaedra Magazine
  
  
  Scripts:
  
  
• Waiting for Rain accepted for performance as Wildcard entry in Sydney Short and Sweet
  
• 2 person play Waiting for Rain shortlisted in 2007 Short and Sweet competition – Sydney
  
• 2 person play Waiting for Rain shortlisted in 2007 Short and Sweet competition – Melbourne
  
  
  Prizes:
  
  
• Commended in Eaglehawk Dahlia Festival Bush Poetry prize 2008
  
• Winner Tarralla short story competition 2006
  
• 3rd prize in the Alva Probert short story prize 2006
  
• Highly commended in the Alva Probert poetry prize 2006
  
• Winner of the Herb Thomas Memorial Trust Award 2006 for students pursuing careers in literature and/or the media at Chisholm Institute of TAFE.
  
• Highly Commended Woorilla National Poetry Prize 2006
  
• 2nd place Page Seventeen short story competition 2006
• Highly Commended FAW group anthology (DR poetry) award 2005
  
• 2nd place Eastern Regional Libraries short story local award 2005
  
• Winner Yakkerboo short story competition 2005
• Winner Woorilla local poet award 2005
• 2nd place Glen Eira My Brother Jack short story award 2004
• Winner Kingaroy Eisteddfod short story prize 2004
• Highly Commended FAW group anthology (LRW) award 2003
• Winner Eastern Regional Libraries short story local award 2003
• Winner Slippery When Wet short story competition 2003
• Finalist prize Slippery When Wet short story competition 2003
• Winner Red Room Word Slam 2003
• Highly Commended Aussie Kids short story competition section 2 (rhyming story) 2002
• Highly Commended Aussie Kids short story competition section 1 (children's story) 2002
• Commended Yellow Moon Nutshell poetry competition 2002
• Winner Alva Probert Memorial short story competition 2001
• Winner Kingaroy Eisteddfod short story competition 2001
• Highly Commended Yakkerboo short story competition 2001
• Finalist KT Publishing short story competition 2000
• Winner ebay Online Publishers (not the auction site) Open Theme Competition 2000
• 2nd place Cairn Terrier Club of Victoria short story competition 2000
• Winner WriteSpot Publishers International Autumn Short Story 2000
• 2 x commended in FACTS Awards, 1981
  
  
  Books and Articles:
  
  
• Pirates article for Comet school Magazine 2006
  
• Under the Moon poetry collection Poets of the Dandenongs series
  
• Minding Foo-Foo Children's reader, series 1 Zig-Zags from Oxford University Press 2006
  
• Thylacine Dreaming Children's reader from Thomson Nelson 2005
• Skeletons article for Explore school magazine 2004
• Comparative time article for Comet school magazine 2003
• Christmas article for Australian family circle magazine 2002
  
  
  
  
  editing:
  
  
• Under the Moon poetry collection
• co-editor Wasteland anthology 2005
• co-editor pendulum magazine 2005
• co-editor Scots Harbour anthology 2004
  
• assistant proof reader Going Down Swinging 2004
• co-editor Shorts anthology
  
  
  judging:
  
  
• Page Seventeen short story competition, issue 5, 2007
  
• Page Seventeen short story competition, issue 4, 2006