Who?
Andrew McMillen is a freelance journalist based in Brisbane, Australia.
He has reported on a week-long summer romance tour from south Ukraine; interviewed The Dandy Warhols in their cosy custom studio in Portland, Oregon; smoked jazz cigarettes with a popular Australian rock band; and written about the world’s best music festival, All Tomorrow’s Parties, which occurs in the dead of winter each year in a family holiday camp near the Bristol Channel.
His work has been published in:
- Rolling Stone Australia,
- The Weekend Australian,
- Qweekend,
- Mess+Noise,
- The Vine,
- triple j mag,
- The Courier-Mail,
- Australian Penthouse,
- IGN Australia,
- GameSpot,
- BrisbaneTimes.com.au, and
- Junior.
He was first published in Brisbane street press Rave Magazine in June 2007. His first passion was writing about music, which has since been superseded by an interest in pursuing feature journalism – although he’s still a regular live music reviewer.
Andrew co-organised the independent music conference UnConvention Brisbane in 2010 and 2011. He was the Queensland ambassador for National Young Writers’ Month 2011, where he was charged with coordinating three public events in Brisbane and his hometown of Bundaberg. These events – which featured notable writers and journalists such as John Birmingham, Matthew Condon and Trent Dalton – were attended by a combined total of 200 young Queensland writers.
This blog, andrewmcmillen.com, serves several purposes: it’s a portfolio of Andrew’s published writing, a hub containing dozens of full-length interviews, and a conversation starter for issues relating to the art of freelance writing.
Find Andrew on: Twitter / Last.FM / YouTube / Vimeo / Delicious / Email
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Below: professional biography for media use, current as of July 2011.
Andrew McMillen is a freelance journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. His work has been published in Rolling Stone Australia, The Weekend Australian, Qweekend, Mess+Noise, The Vine, The Big Issue, triple j mag, The Courier-Mail, Australian Penthouse, IGN Australia and BrisbaneTimes.com.au.
He was first published in Brisbane street press Rave Magazine in June 2007. His first passion was writing about music, which has since been superseded by an interest in pursuing feature journalism – although he’s still a regular live music reviewer.
Andrew co-organised the independent music conference UnConvention Brisbane in 2010 and 2011. He was the Queensland ambassador for National Young Writers’ Month 2011, where he was charged with coordinating three public events in Brisbane and his hometown of Bundaberg. These events – which featured notable writers and journalists such as John Birmingham, Matthew Condon and Trent Dalton – were attended by a combined total of 200 young Queensland writers.
He blogs at andrewmcmillen.com and tweets as @NiteShok.
