Category: Events
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]