KSP Writers’ Centre
June 26, 2018
NB: The competitions in this post have now closed. For a list of new competitions for February to July 2019, check out this more recent post. Are you a young writer? Perhaps you’ve been scribbling down – or typing up – stories or poems or plays or songs for some time now. If you’re wondering […]
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June 28, 2017
[NB: This post is for competitions that were open between July and December 2017. For the most updated competitions for young writers, head to Writing Competitions for Young Writers in Australia: February to July 2018. Do you have a passion for writing? Perhaps you’ve just begun to explore the world of your imagination and need […]
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August 2, 2016
My writing journey has involved traversing a long, winding path with numerous detours and roadblocks, sometimes entire landslides, but I’m slowly learning that nothing we do or experience is wasted – even discarded words and manuscripts. I really do believe that without the countless writing exercises I’ve attempted, hundreds of thousands of words scribbled in […]
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June 16, 2016
Writing the Past: Truth or Lies?
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NB: This post is an edited version of a speech I gave at the launch of the anthology, Truth or Lies, for the KSP Writers’ Centre Past Tense group on 11 June 2016. I still have to pinch myself that I’m primarily an author of non-fiction – because I always dreamed of being a novelist. […]
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February 17, 2016
The Gift of Katharine’s Place
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In case you haven’t heard, I’m currently enjoying the role of emerging writer-in-residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers’ Centre – so named because the house and surrounding grounds in the Perth foothills were once home to writer Katharine Susannah Prichard and her husband Hugo Throssell, VC. I first heard of Katharine Susannah Prichard when […]
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