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Leading in to the announcement of our winner of the Patricia Hackett Prize for 2014, it seems only appropriate to …
NB. This is an amended version of the article originally published in Westerly 59.2 (2014). Many thanks to Sari Smith …
by DAVID WHISH-WILSON A father is God to his son. My father said that before I killed him, but …
by DENNIS HASKELL By 1976 Westerly was in its twenty-first year, the age of adulthood and full citizen’s rights …
This short film is part of a larger documentary video project in the process of being completed by Nicholas Walton-Healey, …
By JOHN BURBIDGE This is a slightly edited version of the Preface to John Burbidge’s recently published biography of Gerald …
(If you are a writer, editor, or publishing worker and would like to add your name to this letter before …
by TONY HUGHES-D’AETH The story of the Carrolup artists is fairly well-known. In 1940, the State Government reopened Carrolup Native …
by JOHN BARNES I One of the most unsettling experiences in old age is the discovery, after the death of …
by NIGEL KRAUTH In the Westerly essay on fiction last year, Annabel Smith cited those ‘lamenting the death of the …
by JOHN MATEER One of the most vivid memories I have of the trip I made with the Painter and …
by DOROTHY HEWETT There have been two places central to my imagination … the state of Western Australia and the …
by JEREMY ALLAN The great balancing act of writing literary non-fiction is determining how many words you can acceptably put …