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Issue 60.1 is coming soon, and now available for pre-order! We are very excited about this wonderful issue, which has …
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We are very happy to announce the winner of the 2014 Patricia Hackett Prize, for the best fiction piece published …
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Leading in to the announcement of our winner of the Patricia Hackett Prize for 2014, it seems only appropriate to …
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NB. This is an amended version of the article originally published in Westerly 59.2 (2014). Many thanks to Sari Smith …
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by DAVID WHISH-WILSON A father is God to his son. My father said that before I killed him, but …
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by DENNIS HASKELL By 1976 Westerly was in its twenty-first year, the age of adulthood and full citizen’s rights …
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by G. M. Glaskin Mr Johnson said to Mrs Johnson: “Somebody’s at last bought the Allingham place.” And Mrs Johnson …
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This short film is part of a larger documentary video project in the process of being completed by Nicholas Walton-Healey, …
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By JOHN BURBIDGE This is a slightly edited version of the Preface to John Burbidge’s recently published biography of Gerald …
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(If you are a writer, editor, or publishing worker and would like to add your name to this letter before …
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by TONY HUGHES-D’AETH The story of the Carrolup artists is fairly well-known. In 1940, the State Government reopened Carrolup Native …
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by JOHN BARNES I One of the most unsettling experiences in old age is the discovery, after the death of …
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by ANDREW BURKE “I still ask the Lord ‘Why?’ and haven’t heard a decent answer yet.” Kerouac is dead he …
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by BARRY LOPEZ The longest flight I ever made—the metaphysical distance between points, not the hours aloft—was from Christchurch, New …
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by TONY HUGHES-D’AETH Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni, Eds., Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935-2012, Monash University Publishing, 2013. …
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by RANDOLPH STOW Some ideas for a new, epic art in an Australian setting. As I remember, what the editors …
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by NIGEL KRAUTH In the Westerly essay on fiction last year, Annabel Smith cited those ‘lamenting the death of the …
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by JOHN MATEER One of the most vivid memories I have of the trip I made with the Painter and …
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by DOROTHY HEWETT There have been two places central to my imagination … the state of Western Australia and the …
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Maria Zajkowski, The Ascendant, Puncher & Wattman, 2015. 59 pgs. Krissy Kneen, Eating My Grandmother: a grief cycle, UQP, 2015. …
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by JEREMY ALLAN The great balancing act of writing literary non-fiction is determining how many words you can acceptably put …
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by SHOKOOFEH AZAR My mother used to say, ‘To dry flowers you have to … hang them upside down … …
