Anthony Ajduk’s memoir, A Firefighter’s Life, is an unflinching account of the dangers, triumphs, and personal costs of a career spent on the front lines of emergency response. With over …
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UWA Publishing’s Vignettes series has been one of the more dynamic additions to WA’s literary landscape in recent years; as almost a ‘behind-the-scenes’ exploration of the intersection between academia and …
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Know Your Worth
Reviewed onI never possessed the confidence of a young Victoria Vivente. I tried to scale the Everest of the Australian dollar but was never good with money. I was also never …
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In The Moment of the Essay, lecturer in Creative Writing at UWA and Editor at Westerly Magazine Daniel Juckes contends that contemporary essay writing is experiencing a significant renaissance, particularly …
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Bullet Paper Rock
Reviewed onIn the opening of his excellent book Bullet Paper Rock, Abbas El-Zein introduces the idea of a particular type of essay, a literary foray. These types of essays, writes the …
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Arts Connecting Margaret River
Reviewed onIn her handsome tome Arts Connecting Margaret River, Heather Locke OAM presents a vibrant tapestry of artistic endeavours that have shaped the Margaret River region over the past half-century. This …
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Kintsugi
Reviewed onShortlisted for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Kintsugi by Marie O’Rourke is a book that, in her own words, resists the ‘tradition of first person, past-tense, chronological, narrative …
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I am that Unicorn
Reviewed onMy paperback copy of I am that Unicorn came with a letter from the Arozak Salam that was written in pink glitter gel pen. It invited the Writing WA team …
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I’m a country kid, born and raised on a large sheep and crop farm on the outskirts of Ongerup, Western Australia. Growing up surrounded by an expanse of broadacre paddocks …
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The Things We Live With
Reviewed onDr Gemma Nisbet is a West Australian writer. She also teaches, amongst other subjects, travel writing. This is because Gemma used to be a travel writer at The West Australian. …
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