Congratulations to the 2022 Living Stories Writing Prize Winners & Highly Commended. We here at WestWords are so excited to launch this...
Living Stories 2022: Things Unsaid
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Projects
BAD Western Sydney
BAD Western Sydney is a new crime anthology set in the urban/suburban sprawl of Western Sydney. This richly diverse part of Australia is home to...
2022 FISHER’S GHOST WRITING PRIZE – A Voice from the Shadows
Fisher's Ghost Writing Prize 2022 A Voice from the Shadows The 2021 Fisher’s Ghost Writing Prize is open to adults and children in Grade 4 and...
2022 Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize – What Now?
2022 Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize The 2022 Blacktown Mayoral Creative Writing Prize is open to adults and children who live in Blacktown...
Transforming Silence: What are the words?
Transforming Silence is the second anthology from WestWords’ LGBTQIA+ writing group. WestWords LGBTQIA+ writing group meets every second Wednesday,...
Westwords-Varuna Emerging Writers’ Residential Program
A beautiful space of quietude, productivity, and connection – this was equally a retreat from the everyday, and an opportunity to affirm myself as a...
Writers on the Road
Writers on the Road: The winter program These winter holidays we are packing our bags and going west! The Holiday Break Program is designed to...
Living Stories – Regional Winners and Highly Commended
We here at WestWords are incredibly excited to announce the regional winners and highly commended entries from the 14 participating LGAs in this...
Living Stories 2022: Things Unsaid Overview
***Entries are now closed. Overall winners and highly commended will be announced on July 18th, 2022. Living Stories Western Sydney Writing Prize...
Booktober
What is Booktober™? Booktober™ is quite simply an annual event held during the month of October encouraging people to read more books! In the...
Art Auction
COV-ART 2 WestWords Fundraising Auction Help our young people tell their stories/ giving Western Sydney a voice. COV-ART 2 Fundraising Auction has...
Female Orphan School writer in residence
WestWords and the Whitlam Institute are pleased to announce Laura Greavesas the inaugural Writer-In-Residence at the Whitlam Institute's Female...
Postcard stories: Refugee Week 2021
To celebrate Refugee Week 2021 we partnered with MECA (Mount Druitt Ethnic Communities Agency) to share the stories of six people who came Australia...
67th Blake Poetry Prize
The Blake Poetry Prize 2021 The Blake Poetry Prize challenges Australian poets to explore the spiritual and religious in a new work of 100 lines or...
Living Stories 2021: Are We Here Yet?
The Living Stories Western Sydney Writing Prize is a new creative writing competition providing opportunities for young and emerging voices, a forum...
Stepping Stones
The world has entered a new phase, life as we know it has changed. Yet it is through these “unprecedented times” that a “new normal” has emerged. As...
Today, Tomorrow, Forever
The Maren Depths
Our Community – A Meeting Place
Writing Western Sydney
First year of a 10 year project to create a literature map of the entire Greater Western Sydney area with 300-500 word stories/extracts hosted on...
Three Weeks in November
Bringing one’s creativity to publication is like no other experience. In that moment of seeing your words reflected back to you from the printed...