We’re pleased to announce the winner of the May WWWC: Mike Ladd. Mike’s poetic entry, ‘A funny thing happened the other day at the Amusement Park’, is funny, arresting and a little surreal, while also being one of the shortest winning entries!

Read his winning poem in full below.

Last week, we gathered at Mrs Harris’ Shop for the launch by multi-hyphenate Tracy Crisp of Sally Heinrich’s Local Icons, a gorgeous new art book that accompanies Sally’s exhibition of the same name.

We are pleased now to be able to share Tracy Crisp’s launching speech.

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the April WWWC: Valerie Volk. Fitting indeed that Valerie’s third WWWC win matches up so perfectly with the prompt ‘three generations’.

Valerie’s winning piece ‘Patterns’ is an examination of mother-daughter relationships and the cycles of behaviour we often fall into. Read her winning piece below.

Wakefield Press is delighted to announce the acquisition of ANZ rights to Katharine Pollock’s comedic second novel, provisionally titled Starry Eyed, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist Agency. Publication is projected in March 2025.

Read on to find out more about this exciting new acquisition.

In the wake of the publication of Art Made Public, a stunning celebration of Marijana Tadic’s thirty-year practice, the artist sat down to answer some of our questions about public art and its role in society.

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the April WWWC: Dante DeBono. Responding to the prompt ‘there is joy in things’, Dante’s winning piece, ‘Object Permanence’, is a bittersweet tale of grief and memory, and the healing nature of time.

Read the winning piece in full below.

Gillian Dooley’s Matthew Flinders: The man behind the map is an exploration of Flinders the man, rather than the decorated navigator and leader, idolised by generations of admirers. In this lovely guest post, Gillian retraces Matthew Flinders through Mauritius, giving advice to documentary producers, surviving a cyclone, giving talks on Flinders, and dealing with delayed flights.

Read her lively piece below.

We’re pleased to announce the second of two winners for the March WWWC: Robert Moore. Responding to the prompt ‘the air was moving’, Robert’s powerful yarn follows a man and his dog trying to make sense of a strange and unwelcoming world.

Read Robert’s winning piece, ‘The Cowboy Man’, below. Find fellow winner Megan Sougleris’s piece here.