We’re pleased to announce the winner of the January WWWC: Margaret Crohn. Responding to the prompt ‘time and again’ Margaret’s epistolary ‘Welcome to Our Town’ chronicles one side of an explosive disagreement.

Read her winning entry in full below.

It’s a stressful world and we can become overwhelmed. But at what point does sadness become depression, and stress an anxiety disorder? In Default Depression, author Anthony Smith examines the medicalisation of common human experience. 

Default Depression builds a compelling case for an extensive shift in how we support people in psychological and emotional distress – away from the damaging tendency to medicalise and medicate, towards a more nuanced and evidence-based approach.

In this guest piece, Anthony writes about the Situational Approach, which reconceptualises human distress as a response to a difficult situation, rather than as an illness.

Read his piece in full below.

In this guest post, Stephen Orr introduces us to Wilf Healy, hero (of sorts) of his forthcoming novel, Shining Like the Sun (March 2024).

Read on below to discover how getting lost on an overseas holiday allowed Wilf to emerge into the world and onto the page.

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the October/ November WWWC: Djuna Hallsworth! Responding to the prompt ‘on your bike’, Djuna’s story, ‘Nail Polish’, is a tale of womanhood, family, and how the ripples of trauma affect a group.

Read her winning entry in full below.

The Adelaide Art Scene: Becoming contemporary 1939–2000 is a landmark anthology of new and archival writing on the Adelaide art scene across six decades. Margot Osborne, primary author, commissioning editor and fearless project leader speaks with Wakefield Press’s fearless leader Michael Bollen about Adelaide’s art scene – its past, present, and future.

Weighing in at 740 pages, and 2.88 kg, this landmark tome ‘could be considered Adelaide contemporary art’s Rosetta Stone’, says John Neylon of InReview.

Read Michael and Margot’s discussion below.

Blood on the Typewriter, Robbie Brechin’s ‘spiky, gossipy, loving and richly insightful’ biography of iconic wine writer and eccentric Philip ‘Whitey’ White, laid bare a life lived large.

Son of an Old Testament manic street preacher, Philip left home and dove headlong into bohemia when he was 17, and was in Paul Kelly’s first band, The Debutantes, among other adventures.

In this guest post, Robbie and Philip reignite their partnership, reminiscing on Philip’s life and health, and closing old wounds.