$20k unpublished manuscript award launched for WA young writers
Fremantle Press is partnering with social-purpose organisation the Fogarty Foundation to launch an unpublished manuscript award for young writers in Western Australia, worth $20,000. The biennial award, called the Fogarty Literary...
2019 Scribblers Festival Schools Program announced
The program for the Scribblers Festival Schools Program, which runs from 8-10 May 2019 in Claremont, Western Australia, has been announced. Launched last year, Scribblers Festival celebrates children’s literature and...
Amateur historian seeks donations to digitise historic WA footage
An amateur historian who bought 74 reels of historic WA films that were found by the roadside in Perth is seeking funds from the public to digitise them, reports the...
Outside the lines: Meet Scribblers festival director Katherine Dorrington
After 12 years at Perth Writers Festival (PWF), Katherine Dorrington has stepped straight back into programming as the director of Scribblers Festival, a new festival celebrating children's literature and arts....
‘Westerly’ magazine editors step down
The editors of WA literary magazine Westerly, Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, have stepped down from their positions.Bird has been editor since 1992, first with Dennis Haskell and then as...
ALIA Fellowship awarded to WA State Library CEO
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has awarded an ALIA Fellowship to the State Library of Western Australia CEO Margaret Allen.ALIA Fellowships are conferred by the organisation’s board of...
SA Government expands Christmas trading hours
The South Australian Government has announced they will allow retailers to trade for extended hours during the Christmas period.Retailers will be able to open their stores at 9am instead of...
WA Government expands Christmas trading hours
Perth retailers are allowed to trade for extended hours during the Christmas period after changes to trading hours by the Western Australian Government Department of Commerce, reports the ABC. Beginning...
WA prem’s awards 2014 shortlists announced
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced on 28 July by State Library of Western Australia CEO and state librarian Margaret Allen. The shortlisted...
Kimberley Writers Festival postponed until 2015
The Kimberley Writers Festival in Western Australia has been postponed until 2015. Festival coordinator Joanne Roach said in a statement: ‘The challenge of raising sponsorship and grant contributions has proven...
Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival program 2014 announced
The program for this year’s Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival in Western Australia has been announced. This year’s festival will be held from 16 to 18 May. Among the...
T.A.G. Hungerford Award secures major sponsor
The City of Fremantle has been named as the new sponsor of the T.A.G. Hungerford Award, with the council to support the award financially for the next six years. The...
‘Cut and Paste Lake’ wins Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2013
Western Australian poet Nandi Chinna has won the 2013 Tom Collins Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Cut and Paste Lake’. Chinna was announced as the winner of the $1000 prize...
WAYRBA 2014 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the 2014 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Older readers Pathfinder (Scott Orson Card, Simon Pulse) Summer’s Dream...
WA Premier’s Book Awards adds emerging writers category
The Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards will include an award for emerging writers for the first time in 2014. The $10,000 Western Australian Emerging Writers Award will be awarded to a...
Pick-a-WooWoo shortlisted for WA business award
Western Australia-based publisher Pick-a-WooWoo has been named a finalist in the 2013 Regional Small Business Awards, presented by the Western Australian Government. Pick-a-WooWoo, which publishes Mind Body Spirit books for...
Australian authors and illustrators to attend Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2014
Six Western Australian children’s authors and illustrators have been selected to attend the 2014 Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) in Singapore as part of writingWA’s cultural exchange program with...
Hitchcock wins inaugural writingWA fiction award
Miles Hitchcock has won the inaugural Curtin University Prize for Fiction, administered by writingWA. Hitchcock, who lives in the Western Australian town of Barragup, near Mandurah, won the award for...
Dianne Wolfer wins SCBWI award
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has presented the 2013 Louise Schofield Award for Services to SCBWI Australia West to children’s author Dianne Wolfer. Wolfer, who lives...
WA Premier’s Book Awards 2012 winners announced
The winners of this year’s Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards were announced by Minister for the Arts John Day on 16 September. Michelle de Kretser was presented with the $25,000 Premier’s Prize, which...