We’re pleased to announce the winner of the March WWWC: Valerie Volk! Responding to the prompt ‘reading the tea leaves’, Valerie’s ‘Tea Time’ follows a woman who practices in unusual healing methods confronted by the angry spouse of a former client.

Read Valerie’s winning story below.

Content warning: this story discusses mental health and suicide.

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the April WWWC: Cheryl Williss! Cheryl’s response to the prompt ‘I started a joke’ is a light-hearted tale of misfortune in an elevator. In Cheryl’s winning story, ‘Going Up’, a young woman rushing to a job interview runs into a strange roadblock.

This is the second time that Cheryl has won the WWWC – read her first winning entry, responding to the prompt ‘moving around’, here.

Cheryl has generously opted to donate her $250 voucher to the Fleurieu Peninsula Family History Group, which is incredibly generous of her.

Read Cheryl’s winning entry below.

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the March WWWC: Kristin Murdock! Kristin’s response to the prompt ‘hands up’ is a haunting and sad story about the way that trauma affects us. In Kristin’s winning story, ‘The Broken Pedal’, a mother haunted by her past behaves strangely in the present.

Read Kristin’s winning entry below.

In March, we celebrated the launch of Andrew Roff’s debut short-story collection, The Teeth of a Slow Machine. Launched by Patrick Allington at the fantastic Wheatsheaf Hotel, the event was a roaring success, and a great way to welcome Andrew’s dreamlike collection into the world.

We’re pleased now to be able to share Andrew’s launch speech from the event. It’s a wonderful insight into what Andrew has put into his collection, and it also shows just how many moving parts were required to bring The Teeth of a Slow Machine to life.

Read on for Andrew’s wonderfully funny and interesting speech.

At Wakefield Press, we love the feeling of having new books arrive in the warehouse after months (sometimes years) of hard work by our dedicated book team. We’re almost as excited as our fantastic authors!

Two of our most recent new releases have some particularly excited (and clever) authors. Allayne Webster and Andrew Roff have each created wonderful videos in honour of their new books.

Watch them below, and get to know our authors and their books a little better.

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Tim Reeves’ The Death of Dr Duncan is the first account in 50 years to examine in detail Dr Duncan the man, his killing and its investigation, and the gay law reform it precipitated. In this guest post, Tim describes a chance finding which shed new light on Dr Duncan’s personality.

Read on below.

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