Shelley Gare

Shelley Gare (born 1952) is a Walkley award-winning Australian freelance journalist, editor and author. She has held some of Australia's most senior magazine editor positions including editor of both Good Weekend and Sunday Life.^[1]

Early life and career

Gare was born Helen Shelley Gare in Carnarvon, Western Australia in 1952, the fourth and youngest child of public servant Frank Ellis Gare (Commissioner for Native Welfare for the State of Western Australia) and artist and novelist Nene Gare. Her brother is Arran Gare, metaphysician and environmental philosopher.

Her family moved from Carnarvon to Geraldton then to Perth with her father's employment ^[2] and Shelley was educated in Perth then trained as a cadet journalist on The Daily News there. She moved to Sydney and in her early 20s and became editor of Cleo magazine.

She moved to London to work for Australian Consolidated Press's Fleet St bureau, then as deputy editor on Company magazine and finally as deputy editor on the Look section of The Sunday Times, returning to Australia in 1986, where, after working as an assistant editor on The Herald in Melbourne, and then as editor of Good Weekend, she eventually became the first woman deputy editor appointed to The Australian newspaper. Gare was responsible for all newspaper features. She was also a consultant editor on the start-up of WHO magazine.^[3]

Gare was a founding editor of The Australian’s Review of Books, now called "The Australian Literary Review", for which she won a Walkley Award, a recognition of excellence in journalism. She is now a freelance journalist and regular contributor to a variety of publications.^[4]

In 2012 she became a Contributing Editor with the Australian Financial Review.

Articles

• Death by Silence in the Writers' Combat Zone, July 2010, No. 36, Quadrant (magazine)
• E-types reign in a rude new world, Dec 14 2009 National Times
• Making Trouble, August 2010The Monthly

Books

• My Life as a Father by Ross Campbell, edited by Shelley Gare, Media 21 Publishing, Sydney, 2005, ISBN 1-876624-71-X (edited)
• Triumph of the Airheads, Media 21 Publishing, Sydney, 2006, ISBN 1-876624-54-X

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