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The third annual Australian Short Story Festival will be held from Friday the 19th October to Sunday the 21st October at the Centre for Stories in Northbridge. This festival is a celebration of short stories, writers and oral storytellers from all over Australia.

For further details about the Australian Short Story Festival please click the Flyer, or visit the Australian Short Festival website. You can view the 2018 program at the Australian Short Festival Program. Please note that some of these workshops are free whilst others you will have to pay to attend. Even if the workshop is free you have to book ahead of time. Please click here to book.

Two of our members Josephine Taylor and Hannah van Didden will be attending.

Josephine Taylor and Hannah van Didden are our Writers-in-Residence this year. Click here for more information.

Centre for Stories is hosting a literary mixer with author Alicia Tuckerman on the 9th of August 6:30 – 7:30 pm. This event is featuring the two debut novelist, and they will both be talking about their journeys to publication as YA authors. Tickets are $15 each, with limited seating, so secure your ticket today.
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Hey there everyone, have you heard? Our friends over at Westerly are launching their latest issue, and they’re having a party! On the 19th of July, join them for an evening of drinks and nibbles, as they launch issue 63.1 of Westerly. To RSVP for their event, click on the link here.

Beaufort Street Books are hosting an in conversation event with author Susan Midalia to discuss her recently published novel, The Art of Persuasion.

Tuesday 12th June at 6.15pm for 6.30pm start.

Tickets $10 include cheese and wine tasting.

For more information visit their website.

This Anzac Day Wednesday the 25th of April we commemorate our fallen heroes.

Charles Page, Peter Cowan Writer Centre member, does this through his book Wings of Valour. 

To learn more about the stories of the AAFC  7 Wing WA click here

PRIMAVARIANTS: Conversations across a Continent (poems of The Great Western Shield & New England Tablelands of NSW)

John Ryan and Glen Phillips would like to invite you to the launch of their illustrated book of spring eco-poems “Primavariants”.
ECU Professor Patrick Armstrong will launch the book, copies available $15 (launch price).

 A light lunch will be provided.

Details:
Book Launch “Primavariants” and Lunch
Date: Thursday 7th December 2017
Time: 12pm to 12.45pm
Venue: Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Edith Cowan House, Building 20, ECU Joondalup Campus, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup WA 6027

RSVP: Glen Phillips at: mailto:glenlyp@bigpond.com (or telephone 9272 3797)

Directions to the Centre: From Lakeside Drive to Deakin Road, enter Car Park 14. There is a visitors parking area, near the Gymnasium and Child Care Centre.  Please click the Map to Venue.

Additionally, you may wish to stay on after the book launch, for a separate free event:
The ICLL Symposium: Perth’s Lost Lakes
Time: 1pm to 5.45pm
Venue: Room 202, Building 21, ECU Joondalup Campus, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup 6027.

Join distinguished scholars, writers and civil leaders for an afternoon of enquiry and discussion, followed by a guided tour of Joondalup Lake 5.45pm to 6.30pm..
However, as they are separate events, if you would like to attend this Symposium, you will need to register via Eventbright on this link:

Eventbright –  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/perths-lost-lakes-a-symposium-tickets-39711902369

Josephine has recently been appointed as the new Associate Editor at Westerly magazine, and will work alongside Editor Catherine Noske and the Westerly team to continue to develop the magazine as a platform for lively and intelligent fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and scholarly offerings. Josephine is also a member of the editorial board at Margaret River Press, and reviews regularly for Australian Book Review.

Congratulations, Josephine.

Congratulations to member, Hannah van Didden, on her recent shortlisting in the inaugural Peter Carey Short Story Award conducted by the Moorabool Shire Libraries. Hannah’s story ‘Gerald Bantam Says Goodbye’ was one of sixteen shortlisted finalists from 252 entries. Well done, Hannah.