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Our Member Organisations

Arts Organisation

Esperance Community Arts (Inc)

Esperance Community Arts is committed to supporting a strong network between arts organisations, artists, and other community groups in the region, and to delivering inclusive and accessible arts projects across 6 main artforms (visual arts and crafts, writing, music, theatre, dance & digital arts) in partnership with community members. We offer mentoring and assistance with project planning, event management and promotion and funding applications to our members and to other community groups engaged in arts-related activities. We facilitate and contribute to a variety of programs that help to increase participation in the arts by supporting individuals and groups to work together, to access local resources, to expand social networks, and to express creativity and local identity.

https://esperancecommunityarts.org.au/

Bookshop

Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health Limited

The FISH Retail Store offers a platform for Aboriginal authors and artists to display and sell their products. When you purchase a product through FISH you make a direct contribution to the lives of Aboriginal families and communities throughout Australia, whilst supporting a local Not for Profit organisation. Our book range is extensive with over 240 titles on offer.

http://www.fish.asn.au

Rabble Books & Games

Rad community bookshop

http://www.rabblebooksandgames.com.au

Beaufort Street Books

This delightful bookstore in the heart of Mount Lawley to provide a destination for people to gather as a community, meeting people of similar interests – all driven by the written word.

https://beaufortstreetbooks.com.au/

Paper Bird Children's Books & Arts

A specialist children's bookshop stocking quality books, focusing on Australian writers and illustrators.

https://www.paperbird.com.au/

Dymocks Busselton

Dymocks Busselton, so much more than a bookshop! Known for its passionate owner, enthusiastic staff, vibrant atmosphere, varied events, tantalising children's room, brilliant range of books and competitive prices, Dymocks Busselton also reaches out to other towns, travelling the southwest in a mobile van, bringing books to schools, libraries and communities without bookshops.

Crow Books

Specialising in hard-to-find alternative titles as well as mainstream reads.

http://crowbooks.com.au/

Boffins Books

Australian owned, independent bookseller offering customers an eclectic range of technical, practical, special interest and fiction books.

https://www.boffinsbooks.com.au/

Barclay Books

Barclay Books is an independent bookstore located in the Old York Fire Station. We stock a range of new, secondhand, rare and collectable books across all genres, with an online store through our website. Since opening in 2016, the bookstore now houses over 40,000 titles and a special order service is available. Barclay Books - prepare to be surprised!

https://barclaybooks.com.au

Children's Literature Organisation

The Literature Centre

The Literature Centre is a unique, education based not-for-profit organisation; a place that nurtures children and young adults' interest in literature.

http://www.thelitcentre.org.au

Festival

Scribblers Festival

An annual festival of literature and arts for young people.

https://www.scribblersfestival.com.au/

Library

City of Swan

Public Libraries in the City of Swan.

https://www.swan.wa.gov.au/explore-and-do/libraries

State Library of WA

Reference Library, State collections.

http://slwa.wa.gov.au/

Mundijong Public Library

Regional Public Library

https://www.sjshire.wa.gov.au/community/library

Shire of Augusta Margaret River/ Margaret River Library

Regional Public Library

https://amrlibraries.com/

Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley, Kununurra Library

Providing library programs, resources and customer service to Kununurra District High School and the Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley. Producers of the Kimberley Writers Festival

https://www.swek.wa.gov.au/facilities-recreation/libraries/kununurra-community-library.aspx

City of Nedlands Library

Metro Public Library

https://www.nedlands.wa.gov.au/

City of Armadale - Armadale, Kelmscott and Seville Grove Libraries

Metro Public Libraries in the City of Armadale

https://library.armadale.wa.gov.au/

Bridgetown-Greenbushes Library

Regional Public Library. Producers of the Words in the Valley Festival.

https://www.bridgetown.wa.gov.au/community/library.aspx

Publisher

Dragonfly Publishing

We'll help you create beautiful books to take the reader's breath away. A 'hands-on' publishing experience for authors.

https://www.dragonflypublishing.com.au/

Night Parrot Press

An independent publisher of non-traditional works of fiction and non-fiction, where experimental forms and genres outside the mainstream can find a home.

https://www.nightparrotpress.com

Westerly Magazine

Publishing literature with a special emphasis on Australia, particularly Western Australia, and the Asian region.

https://westerlymag.com.au/

Magabala Books

Australia's leading Indigenous publisher, based in Broome.

https://www.magabala.com/

Hague Publishing

WA small publisher of science fiction and fantasy.

http://haguepublishing.com/

Fremantle Press

Identifying talented new and emerging WA writers and artists, publishing and distributing their work.

https://www.fremantlepress.com.au/

Service Provider

Footprints Publishing Pty Ltd

Providing guidance to writers from origin to destination. Producing beautiful books that leave footprints on the soul.

https://www.footprintspublishing.com.au/

Linellen Press

Offering book and cover design, editing and assessment services through to publishing books. Specialises in memoirs and life stories, and teaching of same..

http://www.linellenpress.com.au/Linellen_Press_home.html

Writers Centre or Writing Group

The Society of Womens Writers WA

Bringing together published and aspiring women writers.

http://www.swwofwa.com.au

Peter Cowan Writers Centre

PCWC is a writing collective dedicated to the development of emerging and established creative writers, and writers for pleasure within the northern suburbs of Perth.

http://pcwc.org.au/

Writers of the Coral Coast

Supporting and encouraging writers of all ages and abilities in the Midwest of Western Australia.

https://www.facebook.com/writersofthecoralcoast/

WA Poets Inc

Developing and promoting poets and poetry

https://wapoets.com/

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