INTERVIEW: Tom Baddeley
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls talks to former journalist and broadcaster Tom Baddeley about writing rhyming verse for children.
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New Ambassador to the USA records father’s memoir
Australian Ambassador to the United States Kim C. Beazley (MP) has recorded the audio version of his father’s memoir Father of the House for the Association for the Blind – Guide Dogs WA.
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May O’Brien wins Deadly Award
Bawoo Stories author May O’Brien has won the 2009 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Education.
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Albany story short listed for NSW Award
Lighthouse Girl by author Dianne Wolfer and illustrator Brian Simmonds has been short listed for a New South Wales Premier’s History Award worth $15,000. It was one of four books to make the short list for the Young People’s History Prize.
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NEWS: Shorelines 2 poetry winners announced
Scott-Patrick Mitchell, James Quinton and Emma Rooksby will feature in Shorelines 2, a collection of works by emerging poets to be published by Fremantle Press in 2010.
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NEWS: Kim Scott tours Germany
Miles Franklin Award winner Kim Scott will commence a book tour of Germany in October 2009.
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IN SHORT: Third print run considered for Boans book
The publisher of Boans for Service by David Hough has exhausted its stocks again. A third reprint is currently under consideration. The first print run sold out in 17 days and the second in less than four weeks. A limited number of bookstores in Perth still have copies for those who are quick! Fremantle Press is the book’s distributor.
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INTERVIEW: David McComb’s Poetry
Emerging Arts Professional Kiri Falls talks to Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy about editing Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb.
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Friends and Fans unite to celebrate Triffids books
Members of The Triffids, Perth band The Morning Night and poet John Kinsella will perform at Fremantle Arts Centre to celebrate the release of Vagabond Holes: David McComb & The Triffids and Beautiful Waste: Poetry by David McComb.
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INTERVIEW: Bruce Bennett discusses novelist Peter Cowan
How long did you know Peter? What was he like to work with as a colleague?
I knew Peter from 1968, when I returned to Perth from Oxford, until his death in 2002. I enjoyed many things about Peter, especially his wide reading and his quiet, ironic sense of humour.