Simon Sellars is a Melbourne-based freelance writer and editor. In 2009, he graduated with a PhD from Monash University; his thesis analysed the 'affirmative dystopias' of the novelist J.G. Ballard. Simon's writing has appeared in The Age newspaper's Good Weekend, A3 and travel supplements, The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, Dwell magazine, Overland magazine, Inside Film, RealTime magazine and The Big Issue. Simon has performed extensive work for Lonely Planet Publications, authoring around 20 guidebook chapters on destinations including Japan, Micronesia, the Netherlands, East Coast Australia and the Northern Territory. He is a co-author of the book Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-made Nations.

As a writer Simon has specialised in travel, in sound art/music, in film/animation, in Ballard and in social welfare. He continues to be inspired by everything from the topography of cereal boxes to the anthropology of non-place urban fields.


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