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Sarah Walker (born 1965) is an Australian author, screenwriter and script producer. She has written for several serial dramas, including Home and Away, Neighbours, and All Saints. She co-created the comedy drama Wonderland with Jo Porter in 2013. Walker has also written novels and worked as a journalist and actor, appearing in Man of Flowers (1983).[2]

Sarah Walker
Born	1965 (age 56–57)[1] Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Writer, script producer

Early and personal life

Walker was born and raised in Sydney.[3] As a teenager she wrote scripts, and she briefly worked as an actress. She studied creative writing while working in the magazine industry, and she has a BA Communication from the University of Technology Sydney. She was the chief subeditor of New Weekly.[1][3]

Walker is openly lesbian and came out when she was 16.[3]

Career

Walker received a publishing contract for two novels,[3] and she wrote the coming out story The Year of Freaking Out in 1997.[4] She began her screen writing career with the serial drama Breakers.[5] Following its cancellation, she moved onto Home and Away and All Saints.[3][4] She helped create the character Charlotte Beaumont (played by Tammy MacIntosh), who was initially a lesbian, however, when Walker left the serial, Charlotte became straight.[3] Walker has written for Neighbours, HeadLand, and A Place To Call Home. She helped develop Winners & Losers and co-created Wonderland.[3] Walker has also worked on Wentworth.[5]

In 2016, Walker received an Australian Writers' Guild nomination for "Episode 6381" of Home and Away in the Best Script for a Television Serial category.[6]

Selected credits

• Breakers – writer, story editor
• Home and Away – writer, script editor, script producer (2007–08), story consultant
• HeadLand (2005) – writer
• All Saints – writer, script producer (2000–03)
• Winners & Losers (2011) – developed, script producer
• Wentworth (2013, 2015) – script consultant, Season 1 and story consultant, Season 4
• Neighbours (2013–) – writer
• Wonderland (2013–2015) – writer, co-creator, script producer

Books

• Simple Things - published by Pan Macmillan, 1996
• The Year of Freaking Out - published by Pan Macmillan, 1997
• Camphor Laurel - published by Pan Macmillan, 1998 (Winner Honour Children's Book of the Year)
• Water Colours - published by Hodder, 2000
• If Only - published by Published by Hodder Headline, 2001
• The Tin Man - published by Allen & Unwin, 2000
• Lucky Three - published by Hodder, 2003

References

External links

• Sarah Walker at IMDb

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