Book Launch Invitation: Jake’s Gigantic List & Crocodile Cake

Join Children’s Book Council WA Branch President, Jan Nicholls, at the State Library of Western Australia for the launch of Jake's Gigantic List and Crocodile Cake.

Written by Ken Spillman with illustrations by Chris Nixon Jake’s Gigantic List is about a little boy discovering the joy of a good story. Crocodile Cake by Nixon and Palo Morgan is a quirky and colourful picture book about a little girl who bakes a very dangerous cake—the kind of cake you have to be quick to eat before it eats you.

Author Ken Spillman and illustrator Chris Nixon will be on hand to sign copies of the books and the evening will feature an exhibition of Nixon’s original artworks and a reading from the books.

Time: 6-8pm
Date: Monday 3 August 2009
Venue: “The Place”, State Library of Western Australia, 25 Francis Street, Perth
RSVP: admin@fremantlepress.com.au or 08 9430 6331

Kimberley Writers' Festival

Catch Jon Doust, author of Boy on a Wire, and Kate McCaffrey, author of in ecstasy at the Kimberley Writers’ Festival, 25-27 July 2009.

Jon Doust, Boy on a Wire

Kate McCaffrey, in ecstasy

The Kununurra Community Library is the proud host of the festival. The Kimberley Writers Festival welcomes the local community and visitors to join with 10 visiting artists (professional authors, songwriters and musicians) and local Indigenous storytellers and authors to engage with books, reading, storytelling, creative writing, illustrating, music and song writing.

Enquiries regarding the festival and booking for events to be directed to 08 9169 1227 or librarian@thelastfrontier.com.au

Mike Williams at the Perth Poetry Club

On Saturday 18 July Mike Williams will perform at the Perth Poetry Club, 2-4pm in the Red Bar at The Court, 50 Beaufort Street, Perth. Free entry. MC Janet Jackson.

Mike Williams writes both fiction and poetry and his two novels, Old Jazz and The Music of Dunes, were published by Fremantle Press. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in various Australian journals and he lives in North Perth with his partner (also a writer), his two musician stepsons, an ageing spaniel and an idle cat.

Bawoo Stories author chairs National Healing Foundation

Since Sorry Day 2009, long-time Fremantle Press author May O’Brien has been conducting workshops in towns across Australia for the proposed National Healing Foundation.

Along with community advocate and researcher Greg Phillips, O’Brien is co-Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development Team that is consulting on a preferred model for the Healing Foundation.



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Hickman wins Churchill Fellowship

Illustrator and Botanist Ellen Hickman was one of just 13 Western Australians to be awarded a Churchill Fellowship last week.

The Fellowship will enable Hickman to travel overseas to to complete her research into the plant family Haemodoraceae whose WA equivalent is the kangaroo paw.

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Creating the Lie of Your Life: A Writing Workshop

Join Jon Doust for a writing workshop on 18 July!

In this workshop Jon will take participants on a journey from memories of real events, to a new vision that re-creates and re-frames those events. Jon recently moved to Albany. He has carved out careers in journalism, stand-up comedy, professional speaking, and writing. He has written children’s books, satirical booklets, been published in two anthologies and contributed numerous columns and articles to major newspapers and magazines. Jon’s recently published book Boy on a Wire has been called a ‘dislocated memoir’ in which Jon took his life as a starting point and then built fiction around it. Some of the events in the book are described as Jon remembers them, others embellished beyond recall.

Presented by UWA Extension at UWA Albany Centre, 35 Stirling Tce, Albany Cost = $65

Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: UWA Albany Centre
Street: 35 Stirling Tce,
City/Town: Albany, Australia
Phone: 0864882433
Email: mailto:extension@uwa.edu.au

Catch Kim Scott on Radio National Verbatim

Kim Scott will be a guest on ABC Radio National's Verbatim program on 6 July 2009. "He tells his story of personal reconciliation and the struggle to understand his family's story of living in Western Australia in the 1930s and 40s during the time of Chief Protector of Aboriginies AO Neville."

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/verbatim/stories/2009/2553446.htm

Dorothy Hewett on First Person

Check out the ABC's FIRST PERSON for Wild Card by Dorothy Hewett. Hewett's books with Fremantle Press include Halfway up the Mountain, Wheatlands (with John Kinsella) and Peninsula.

FIRST PERSON
Monday to Friday 10.45
22/6/2009 - 10/7/2009
"Dorothy Hewett traces the personal and political metamorphoses of her first 35 years. A woman who challenged sexual and political conventions, in combining the passions of her life with her power as a writer she created a classic of people, place and political history..." Read More

Crocodile Cake launch at Berkeleouw Books

Author Palo Morgan signing Crocodile Cake for Nicholas

Children enjoying the reading of Crocodile Cake by the Tea Ladies

Author Palo Morgan and Eumundi Tea Ladies

Photos courtesy of Vikki Jarrett