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Author In-Conversation: Nick Bruining

3 December @ 6:45 pm - 8:30 pm

Join us or this in-conversation and start planning your retirement, panic-free! Want to plan your retirement but don’t know where to start? Join trusted financial adviser Nick Bruining as we …

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Book Launch: Rivers Flow: Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter

5 December @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm , ,

Fremantle Press invites you to celebrate the release of Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter with contributing authors Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, Isobel Bevis, Luisa Mitchell, …

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Join the Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group

22 December @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,

Ever thought about writing a novel, or just writing for fun? The Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group welcomes all adult budding authors to try their hand in a relaxed, supportive environment. …

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Join the Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group

26 January 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,

Ever thought about writing a novel, or just writing for fun? The Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group welcomes all adult budding authors to try their hand in a relaxed, supportive environment. …

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Join the Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group

23 February 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,

Ever thought about writing a novel, or just writing for fun? The Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group welcomes all adult budding authors to try their hand in a relaxed, supportive environment. …

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Join the Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group

23 March 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,

Ever thought about writing a novel, or just writing for fun? The Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group welcomes all adult budding authors to try their hand in a relaxed, supportive environment. …

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Join the Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group

27 April 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,

Ever thought about writing a novel, or just writing for fun? The Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group welcomes all adult budding authors to try their hand in a relaxed, supportive environment. …

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Join the Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group

25 May 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,

Ever thought about writing a novel, or just writing for fun? The Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group welcomes all adult budding authors to try their hand in a relaxed, supportive environment. …

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Join the Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group

22 June 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,

Ever thought about writing a novel, or just writing for fun? The Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group welcomes all adult budding authors to try their hand in a relaxed, supportive environment. …

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Join the Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group

27 July 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ,

Ever thought about writing a novel, or just writing for fun? The Stirling Libraries Writers’ Group welcomes all adult budding authors to try their hand in a relaxed, supportive environment. …

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Latest Notices

Literary Coasters Initiative

Celebrating our Coastal Coasters ‘The Literary Coasters Initiative celebrates the depth and diversity of WA literature in a truly unique way. We were blown away by the community’s passion and …

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Peppermint Grove Retreat

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The Peppermint Grove Retreat offers WA emerging and established authors and illustrators of Children’s and Young Adult books an opportunity to escape their daily lives to focus on creating for …

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THE DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD

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The Dorothy Hewett Award is a national award for unpublished manuscripts and is run annually in the month of November. The award is open to all writers who have completed a manuscript …

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Such is Life: Social History Writing Group

Such is Life, the social history writing group, is dedicated to motivating, encouraging, and supporting writers of faction—a blend of non-fiction and fiction—along with diary and journal writers, war history …

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Emerging Writers Competition – Varnish Literary Journal

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We are thrilled to announce our new contest, The Varnish Prize for Fiction! We’re looking for submissions of the most compelling, formally-inventive and vital unpublished short fiction. Submissions are open …

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Disability-focused journal calling for submissions

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About Two Spoon Press Disabled writers deserve quality publishing. We publish writing that foregrounds disability experiences in all their complexity. We want to challenge assumptions and expand literary conversations, transforming …

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Tim Winton’s ‘Shrine’ at Marloo Theatre

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The second season at Marloo Theatre in Greenmount for 2025 will be the searing drama ‘Shrine’. Written by renowned WA author and playwright Tim Winton, this hard hitting play explores …

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Dragon Tears

Congratulations to Steve Heron on his new junior fiction titled “Dragon Tears” In the mystical realm of dragons, fire-breathing symbolises power. Will Flame, an outcast fledgling dragon, teased by her …

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New Erotic Fiction Competition!

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The Not Quite Write Prize for FLESH Fiction has burst onto the scene, offering an exciting opportunity for new and seasoned writers of erotic fiction to be rewarded for their …

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May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust – Call for applications – 2026 Creative Time Residential Fellowships

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APPLICATIONS FOR OUR 2026 Creative Time Residential Fellowships ARE NOW OPEN Published authors or illustrators of at least one book for children or young people are invited to apply for …

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