We’re pleased to announce the winner of the June WWWC: Leah Rosebrock! Responding to the prompt ‘time waits for no one’, Leah’s winning piece is a mediation on living life to the fullest, even when there’s not much of it left.
We’re pleased to announce the winner of the May WWWC: Bethany Lines. Responding to the prompt ‘where there’s smoke there’s fire’, Bethany weaves a hazy tale of grief and teen rebellion.
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.
Last week, Stephanie Radok’s Under the Bedwas 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.
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.
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.
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acquisition of ANZ rights to Salt Upon the Water by Lyn Dickens, winner of the 2024 South Australian Literary Awards Unpublished Manuscript Award.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.
From ‘Big Shot’ to ‘Swindler’, racier newspapers gloated when Harry Hodgetts was convicted of fraud and false pretences in September 1945. But how did things go so wrong for Hodgetts?
We’re pleased to announce the winner of the September WWWC: Warren Cox. Responding to the prompt ‘backyard secrets’, Warrens short, sharp and shiny poem gave the judges a chuckle.
Read his winning entry, ‘Barely Worth Writing About’, below.