Margaret River to collaborate with Singapore’s Ethos Books on anthology
writingWA has announced a collaboration between Margaret River Press and Singapore publisher Ethos Books to publish an anthology of previously unpublished short fiction Due to be released in the third...
writingWA Awards 2015 winners announced
The winners of the 2015 writingWA Awards, which support emerging writers based in regional Western Australia, have been announced. Marc Simojoki was awarded the Curtin University Prize for Fiction for...
‘Watershed’ moment for WA writing sector after literary groups defunded
The WA Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA) has defunded WritingWA, the state’s peak body for the writing sector, as part of its restructured multi-year funding program. Only two...
writingWA releases tablet apps for illustrated Indigenous stories
writingWA has released two tablet apps based on illustrated stories by Indigenous writers, as part of its Project 360 initiative.Mamang is based on the picture book of the same name by...
WritingWA, State Library of WA team up for new festival
WritingWA and the State Library of Western Australia have announced they will partner to facilitate a new festival in Perth. The Disrupted Festival of Ideas will run from 31 October...
Whiskin to join WritingWA
WritingWA has announced the appointment of Margaret Whiskin as regional engagement officer. Whiskin is currently publisher at Magabala Books. ‘Margaret has been appointed to a newly created, full-time position to...
WritingWA releases app based on children’s picture book
WritingWA has released an app based on a children’s picture book as part of an initiative to encourage multi-platform product development.Caterpillar and Butterfly is based on the picture book of...
WritingWA, Tasmanian Writers’ Centre share in $1.3 million in federal funding for regional arts
WritingWA will receive $150,000 in funding from the Federal Government’s Regional Arts Fund Community Grants program to appoint a regional engagement officer to coordinate the writing centre’s programs throughout regional...
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...
WritingWA announces cultural partnership with Singapore book council
WritingWA has announced a new cultural exchange program with the National Book Council of Singapore, which will involve Western Australian authors and illustrators attending a writers’ festival in Singapore, the...
WritingWA to launch new website for regional members
WritingWA has announced that it will create a new website called Proximity to provide its regional members with greater access to writers’ festivals. The website, which will be launched in...
Writers WA reinstates Writers on the Road program
WritersWA has announced it has been ‘able to reinstate our popular Writers on the Road program for 2012’ as a special initiative of the National Year of Reading, with funding...