The Footy Almanac – or The Almanac as we tend to call it – is a busy website! We publish around 30 pieces across a range of topics each week. All of our stories – over 28,000 of them – are archived and can be found easily enough through site searches and Google searches.
John Harms is the coordinating editor, but these days the Almanac cruises along thanks to the very dedicated team of Col Ritchie, Ian Hauser, Jarrod Landells, Smokie Dawson and Bridget Schwerdt whose profiles you can read below. When stories are sent in, it’s usually these guys who edit and publish them.
If you need to contact an editor about a piece of writing you’re doing, have done, or would like adjusted on the website, please email us at [email protected] and someone will get back to you as soon as they can. Please keep in mind that our wonderful editors are not full-time. They are at their desks from time to time across the day.
You can contact John Harms at any time: [email protected]
or 0417 635030
The editing schedule for the week Sep 8-14 is:
Monday: Jarrod Landells
Tuesday: Colin Ritchie
Wednesday: shared
Thursday: Ian Hauser
Friday: Colin Ritchie
Weekend: shared
Roving: Smokie/Bridget/JTH
John Harms can be contacted directly at any time: [email protected]
Phone: 0417 635030
Our editors
John Harms is a writer, historian and speaker. Over the last twenty years, he’s also been a publisher. He always has his own writing projects on the go, while working with the contributors and editors to keep the Almanac ticking over.
He enjoys hanging out with his kids, lunch, golf and a couple of late-afternoon beers at the pub. He plays nowhere near enough golf. He remains in the worst four putter in the world.
His books Confessions of a Thirteenth Man, Memoirs of a Mug Punter and Loose Men Everywhere are available in the omnibus Play On. He has written biographies of Steve Renouf and Michelle Payne and contributed chapters to many collections. He has been a columnist and feature writer for The Age, The Canberra Times and The Australian.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0417 635030
Read his Almanac stories HERE
Jarrod Landells was drawn to the Footy Almanac as a reader well over a decade ago, but it wasn’t until 2017 that events in Vanuatu, Fiji and suburban Melbourne conspired to bring him into the fold proper.
One member of the burgeoning Queensland contingent at the Almanac, his wanderlust and passion for public health has seen him overseas more often than not in recent years (pandemics notwithstanding). Besides travel for work and leisure, he is never far from a book, magazine or the kitchen and wishes he wasn’t as far away as he is (physically) from the briny or (temporarily) from the footy field.
Read Jarrod’s Almanac pieces HERE
[He also made a comeback to ammos footy a couple of years ago and continues to put on the boots for the Fitzroy FC – Ed]
Col Ritchie is a retired teacher who has returned to study to keep his seventy year old mind active. He enjoys swimming in the ocean and the pool, loves reading. He loves music of all styles and genres – especially Bob Dylan. He travels whenever he can both within Australia and overseas, heading to his favourite place, New Orleans, annually. He is a passionate Bombers supporter eagerly awaiting premiership No. 17.
Read Col’s pieces HERE.
Apart from his family, Darren ‘Smokie’ Dawson’s great interests are sports, music, and pop culture. His love of banter, conversation, and the craic derives from his Irish heritage. He lives with the hope that the North Melbourne Football Club can rise again, and that Williamstown CYMS FC will continue to be successful in the ‘Ammos’.
Read Smokie’s stories HERE
Retired teacher Ian Hauser is not very retired. He sits at his desk (which does not have an item out of place on it) at the northern end of the Sunshine Coast and takes in as much sport as he possibly can, especially rugby league, which he has loved since he was a young boy on a veggie farm in the Lockyer Valley. He retains many of the understandings and enthusiasms of his childhood: his Lutheran-ness, his Queensland-ness and his love of learning. An eclectic reader and wine drinker (known to start the process of preparing the evening meal with a sherry), he manages to combine the two well enough to remember where the yarn is up to. Ian dabbles as an ‘editor for hire’ working with writers on their major projects. Our rugby league specialist, he enjoys his Almanac editing on Thursdays, the exposure to a wide range of writers, styles and topics, the esprit de corps of the Almanac community, and loves heading Down South to enjoy lunch at the North Fitzroy Arms.
Read Ian’s Almanac pieces HERE.
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