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A Glass of Wine and a Good Book
22 May at Crow Books, East Victoria Park
Featuring Rachel Robertson, author of Reaching One Thousand
and wines by Myattsfield Vineyards.
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2012 T.A.G. Hungerford Award
Supported by the Friends and Family of the late Bill Warnock
Entries Close 31 July
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WRITINGWA OFFICE CLOSED FOR ANNUAL LEAVE
The writingWA office will be closed between 2 and 16 May. Normal business will resume on 17 May. We thank our colleagues and stakeholders for their patience during this time.
Time To Write Short Story Competition
Featuring young writer and open categories
AHWA Flash and Short Story Competition
Seeking horror fiction
Combined Book Launch: "Undercover of Lightness" & "On The Circumvesuviana"
New poetry from Andrew Burke and Lucy Dougan
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Congratulations to John Dowson, whose book Fremantle Port (Chart and Map Shop), has won the category of Best Regional Non-Fiction for Australia/New Zealand in the 2012 Independent Book Awards.
A Silver award in the same category went to WA's Carina Hoang for Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1975-1996 (Carina Hoang Communications).
The “IPPY” Awards were conceived as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and are open to authors and publishers worldwide who produce books written in English and intended for the North American market.
For more information on the Awards, click here.