First Poetry Book Prize Winner
The judges, Ella Jeffery and Ed Wright are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 First Poetry Book Prize is Nellie Le…
Ivy Ireland, Toby Davidson, Chris Brown and Ed Wright @ The Garden Lounge
Join us @ Newtown’s The Garden Lounge Creative Space ( 573 King St) on Saturday 13 March from 4pm for readings by Ivy Ireland…
Puncher & Wattmann First Poetry Book Prize
Hurry! Entries to the biennial First Poetry Book Prize (FPBP) close December 31st. If you think you’ve got what it takes, then send us…
Book of the Month
Dental Tourism Mark O’Flynn A book of luminous, moving and witty short stories from one of Australia’s finest writers. Both comic and poignant, historical…
Jordie Albiston Wins the Patrick White Award
We're really pleased that Jordie Albiston has won the Patrick White Award. It's fitting recognition of an outstanding achievement in poetry. Well done Jordie!…
The Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poetry
The Puncher & Wattmann First Poetry Book Prize is open to any Australian who has not yet published a full-length book (we define a…
Blog posts about the new anthology
Martin Langford, one of the editors of the new P&W anthology Contemporary Australian Poetry, is our current guest blogger. In 'Anthologies and the visibility…
Launch of a comprehensive new anthology
Contemporary Australian Poetry Edited by Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson and David Musgrave. Surveying the work of the past 25 years. To be…
Praise for Philip Salom’s new novel Waiting
According to Stephen Romei in his Ragged Claws column, a queue was lining up to review Waiting for the Weekend Australian. A very positive…
Dennis Greene’s ‘Here Be Dragons’
A perfect day for Greene’s Dragons A warm sunny afternoon at the shady Tropical Grove in the campus of the University of Western Australia…