ANNOUNCEMENT: Mike Ladd wins the April WWWC!

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the April WWWC: Mike Ladd. Mike’s response to the prompt ‘turning a corner’ is short in length, but not on emotion. An impossible sighting makes Mike question reality and confront his grief.

Read his winning entry, ‘Not Turning a Corner’ below. This is Mike’s third WWWC win – find his winning response to ‘glimmer of light’ here, and ‘funny thing happened the other day’ here.

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Launching Stephanie Radok’s UNDER THE BED

Last week, Stephanie Radok’s Under the Bed was launched at the State Library of South Australia by Melinda Rankin, Director of Fabrik Arts + Heritage in Lobethal. Attendees were surrounded by etchings from Stephanie’s exhibition, Inside a Book, showing until Wednesday 30 April 2025.

We’re pleased now to be able to share Melinda’s thoughtful launch speech, which celebrates Stephanie’s knack for finding the beauty in the mundane.

Read Melinda’s speech in full below.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Susan Hobson and Kristin Murdock win the March WWWC!

We’re pleased to announce the winners of the March WWWC: Susan Hobson and Kristin Murdock. We couldn’t decide between their entries, so this March 2025’s WWWC is a jointly awarded prize. Read Susan’s entry below, and find Kristin’s here.

Susan’s ‘Festival Madness’ is an immersive ride through the waves of a crowded festival.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Kristin Murdock and Susan Hobson win the March WWWC!

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We’re pleased to announce the winners of the March WWWC: Kristin Murdock and Susan Hobson. We couldn’t decide between their entries, so this month’s is a jointly awarded prize. Read Kristin’s entry below, and find Susan’s here.

Kristin’s ‘Revenge Takes the Cake’ is a rollicking poem about baking, competition, and sabotage.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Wakefield Press Acquires Lyn Dickens’s Salt Upon the Water

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Wakefield Press is delighted to announce the acquisition of ANZ rights to Salt Upon the Water by Lyn Dickens, winner of the 2024 South Australian Literary Awards Unpublished Manuscript Award. Lyn is represented by Alexandra Christie of Curtis Brown Australia.

Find out more about this exciting new novel below.

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WWWC Runner-up Edition: ‘Rolling back the years’

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The WWWC might be taking a short breather over the holiday period, but we certainly haven’t lost our appetite for interesting writing! We’ve decided to share some runner-ups to previous editions of the WWWC challenge, beginning first with Pam Makin, whose response to November’s prompt ‘rolling back the years’ was such a close second that it would be unfair to deprive our readers.

Read Pam’s deceptively simple ‘Ghost of a Chance’ below.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Wakefield Press acquires Troy Hunter’s latest Gus mystery

Wakefield Press is delighted to announce the acquisition of world rights to Troy Hunter’s Gus and the Burning Stones, the sequel to his smash-hit debut Gus and the Missing Boy, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. Gus and the Burning Stones is slated for publication in July 2025.

Find out more about this exciting new acquisition below.

Author image credit: Tony Zara Photography

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