Category: Events

Don’t miss Andrew Sutherland’s visit to Boorloo/Perth to launch their new poetry collection, Act Cute. Held at Rabble bookshop on Thursday 10 July, Andrew will be joined by Rashida Murphy, as well as writers Casey Mulder, Prema Arasu and Marziya Mohammedali, who will also be reading. Act Cute is the second poetry collection from Andrew, […]

Bring the family to this special NAIDOC event with Jayden Boundry and Tyrown Waigana, the creators of Boodja Barna. On Sunday 13 July at AH Bracks Library, celebrate culture and connection to Country with plenty of stories and illustrations about our native land animals. You might even learn a few new Noongar words! The event […]

Celebrate the release of Act Cute by Andrew Sutherland in Melbourne! Act Cute is the second collection by the award-winning Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker. In it, Andrew addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks how to perform a coherent self amidst the forces of nostalgia, institutional entanglements and reckonings, and […]

On Sunday 27 July, Stories from the West will celebrate the authors shortlisted for the 2025 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, and it’s a perfect way to get familiar the shortlisted books. There will be three panels taking place at the State Library of WA: Bringing Your Book to the World with Khin Myint, Emily […]

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 […]