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Stream the 2025 Emerging Writers’ Festival program launch

   August 7, 2025
   6.30pm—8.00pm
   Online

It’s nearly time for the 2025 Emerging Writers Festival! The program launch will take place on 7 August at 6:30 pm (AEST) at The Wheeler Centre. Not in Naarm/Melbourne? No problem! The launch will be streamed nationally online, so you can join in the literary fun from home. The program promises to burst with cross-disciplinary […]

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Karen Herbert’s thrilling new Perth-based mystery is here!

   August 14, 2025
   6.00pm—8.00pm
   Planet Books Cottesloe

An amateur sleuth living with a disability. Her dead secret lover. A mystery begging to be solved. The Ghost Walk is launching on Thursday 14 August and you’re invited! Join Karen Herbert and Josephine Taylor at Planet Books Cottesloe for an engaging in conversation. Light refreshments will be provided, and copies of the book will […]

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Roar your way to the Crunch! Kaboom! launch this Book Week

   August 17, 2025
   10.30am—11.30am
   AH Bracks Library + Creative Space

Sunday 17 August, 10.30–11.30 am. AH Bracks Library + Creative Space Join author Clodagh Starr and illustrator Alison Mutton for a morning of storytelling, sing-alongs and activities to celebrate the launch of Crunch! Kaboom! It’s going to be big, loud and fun – much like the mighty mining machines themselves! Copies of Crunch! Kaboom! will […]

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A big, beautiful weekend for KidLit lovers

   August 23August 24, 2025
   State Library of Western Australia

Children’s literature lovers, get ready for the biggest event of the year! On the weekend of 23–24 August, the State Library of WA will be transformed into a storytelling feast, in a choose-your-own-adventure style. CBCA Birthday Book Adventure Help the Children’s Book Council of Australia celebrate their 80th birthday with activities all around the library. […]

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It’s hot ground at the launch of Lisa Ellery’s new crime fiction novel

   September 1, 2025
   6.00pm—8.00pm
   Subiaco Library

In the middle of the night, in a remote part of Western Australia’s goldfields, the thud of a mallet on a marker peg sets off a chain reaction that unearths secrets long buried … You’re invited to the launch of Hot Ground, a new police procedural from Kalgoorlie lawyer Lisa Ellery. Lisa will be in […]

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The Festival of Fiction is back – bigger and better

   October 18October 19, 2025
   ECU Joondalup

After an immediate sell-out success last year, the Festival of Fiction is back with an even bigger program: two enormous days, two theatres and 70 authors. We’re excited that Fremantle Press authors Alan Carter, Karen Herbert, Emily Paull, Chemutai Glasheen, Brooke Dunnell, Henry Farnan, Jo Taylor, David Allan-Petale, Dave Warner, Chenée Marrapodi, Holden Sheppard, Deb […]