Fremantle Press: Hickman wins Churchill Fellowship

Fremantle Press: Hickman wins Churchill Fellowship

Fremantle Press: East Meets West - WA Writers Night in Canberra

Fremantle Press: East Meets West - WA Writers Night in Canberra

Boy on a Wire Heads East

Jon Doust is heading east to shove and push and generally talk up his new book, Boy on a Wire. It’s a heavy book, yet light, and easy to read.
It’s time to push. Sales are good, but could be better. Lots of folk on the eastern seaboard have not heard about it yet.

See his itinerary here

The Last Whale: East Meets West - WA Writers Night in Canberra

The Last Whale: East Meets West - WA Writers Night in Canberra

Alice Nelson - Best Young Novelist 2009

Alice Nelson, author of The Last Sky, has been named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist for 2009.

The judges said: 'In this rich and evocative novel, Nelson moves her narrative easily between Perth and China, between the past and the future, juxtaposing the inner life of her protagonist, Maya Wise, with the political upheaval of the Hong Kong handover. The themes of exile and dislocation are cleverly drawn and Maya's imagined wanderings into wartime Shanghai give her refuge in someone's else's past. The language displays great restraint as well as a real lyrical beauty.'

See the full coverage in the Sydney Morning Herald

The Last Whale on Can We Help?

Fremantle Press: The Last Whale on Can We Help?: "Chris Pash, the author of The Last Whale, will appear on the ABC TV program Can We Help? on Friday April 24 at 6.30pm.

The segment is A Moment in time, a capsule of history about the final days of whaling in Australia thirty years ago

The Last Whale follows the lives of Australia’s last whalers at Albany, Western Australia, and a group of activists who fought to close the industry"

indigo Journal Calls for Submissions from WA Writers

West Australia's newest journal of Creative Writing is calling for submissions for volume 4, to be published in October 2009.indigo welcomes work from unpublished, new and leading writers of poetry, short stories and creative non-fiction (i.e. personal essay, biography and memoir).

All poetry, short stories and creative non-fiction published in indigo are selected anonymously by an interchanging panel of guest editors who oversee the work produced in each volume.

'We are proud to have award-winning Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey selecting the short stories for volume 4’,' says managing editor of indigo journal, Donna Ward. Lohrey has written 5 novels and selected the short stories for Best Australian Short Stories 2002 (Black Inc). Her recent novella Vertigo, also published by Black Inc, has gathered widespread positive reviews.

The guest editor responsible for the selection of poetry for volume 4 is nationally respected West Australian poet Lucy Dougan, author of The Memory Shell (Five Islands Press 1998) and the recent White Clay (Giramondo), which was released in 2008.

Chris Pash, the author behind The Last Whale (Fremantle Press), a recent account of the end of whaling in Australia, will select the creative non-fiction entries. 'Although he now lives and works in Sydney, Chris is very much an "Albany person",' says Ward.

Along with the poetry and creative non-fiction of up and coming West Australian writers, this volume of indigo will feature short stories by local writer Susan Midalia, author of the short story collection, The History of the Beanbag (UWA Press 2007) and an interview with one of WA's best known artists of this form, Robert Drewe, whose recent collection of stories The Rip (Penguin) is out now.

You can submit to indigo if you live in Western Australia, or reside elsewhere but have lived in W.A. for at least ten years of your life.The deadline for submissions is May 30th and you can download guidelines at http://www.indigojournal.org.au/.