Author: Eleanor Limprecht Alice is only nine years old in 1910 when she is sent to the feared Coast Hospital lazaret at Little Bay in Sydney, a...
The Coast
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The Ozone Café
Author: Helen Hagemann The Ozone Café, a historical novel with three separate owners, is about the café’s demise through council corruption....
Tom Kaldor ~ Monday 06 June
West Side Poetry Slam – May 2022 feat. Tom Kaldor The West Side Poetry Slam is presented as a hybrid event at WestWords and via Zoom.Presented by...
Hip Hop & Hymns
Author: Mawunyo Gbogbo Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. At home,...
Lovers of Philosophy
Author: Warren Ward Lovers of Philosophy explores the love lives of seven philosophers, and how their most intimate experiences came to shape their...
Maria Takolander
Maria Takolander is a Finnish-Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and independent scholar. She is the author of four books of poetry: Trigger...
The Torrent
Author: Dinuka McKenzie In Northern New South Wales, heavily pregnant and a week away from maternity leave, Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is...
Tom Kaldor & Gnattie ~ Wednesday 25 May
A sampler of May's West Side Poetry Slam, presented as a hybrid event at WestWords and via Zoom. Featuring Tom Kaldor & Gnattie Presented by...
Season 3, Episode 8
Happy birthday to Robert Allen Zimmerman. We hear from the three top-placed poets in the 67th Blake Poetry Prize. Plus news from WestWords.
The 67th Blake Poetry Prize: the interview
James Roy interviews Simone King (winner) along with Kirsten Krauth and Gershon Maller (highly commended), the three successful poets from the 2022...
Banjawarn
Author: Josh Kemp Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in...
Draw This! JESS RACKLYEFT creates AN ICEBERG
Jess Racklyeft In this fun step by step tutorial award-winning illustrator Jess Racklyeft shows how to create an iceberg using a mix of drawing and...
Brunswick Street Blues
Author: Sally Bothroyd Brick Brown has problems: she hates her day job, and her beloved Uncle Baz has gone missing. Although a bartender by trade,...
The Shortest History of China
Author: Linda Jaivin From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics...
Season 3, Episode 7
Happy Mothers' Day! In recognition of mothers everywhere, we're recommending two wonderful and moving books about motherhood. Plus all the usual...
Sarah Temporal ~ Saturday 07 May
A sampler of February's West Side Poetry Slam, organised live via Zoom! Featuring Sarah Temporal. Presented by WestWords and West Side Poetry Slam,...
The Writer Laid Bare
Author: Lee Kofman The Writer Laid Bare is a book for everyone who loves the craft of good writing. Be they a voracious reader wanting to know more...
Binding: More Than A Motherhood Memoir
Author: Lynn Garlick As a social worker, Lynn supports families in trouble, only to find that her own family is unravelling. Binding is an enjoyable...
Alasdair Carter ~ Wednesday 27 April
A sampler of April's West Side Poetry Slam, presented as a hybrid event at WestWords and via Zoom. Featuring Alasdair Carter. Presented by WestWords...
Brett Dionysius
B. R. Dionysius was founding Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival. His poetry has been widely published in literary journals, anthologies,...
Season 3, Episode 6
It's ANZAC Day, and we discuss Catch-22, one of the great war novels. We hear from Hani Abdile, Somalian-Australian poet. Plus news and opportunities.