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If you’re in Perth, I’d love to see you at this flash fiction reading at Open Book! 😍✨ I’ll be reading my contribution to the THREE CAN KEEP A SECRET anthology and looking forward to hearing other authors read theirs 🥰📚 Night Parrot Press eventbrite.com.au/e/night-parrot…

Chasing your writing dream? $20,000 and a publishing contract could make a real difference. We’d love you to submit your manuscript for the Fogarty Literary Award. buff.ly/3FnWGt9

Today’s #KickstarterReads comics #ProjectOfTheDay is Mixed Feelings: Book 2 from Comics On Country, the latest in the graphic novel series and supernatural coming-of-age story by young First Nations storyteller Declan Miller from Mparntwe (Alice Springs). kickstarter.com/projects/comic…

Are you an 18 to 35-year-old West Australian writer with an unpublished manuscript? The Fogarty Literary Award is worth $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. Entries close 18 April 2023. buff.ly/42e6uQa

So excited to announce I’m taking part in this year’s Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival! 😍🎉 I’m chatting to Holden Sheppard has moved to IG & BSKY 🇦🇺😎💪, then hosting a fun YA event for the young booklovers in our state’s south with Holden and @marksmith0257 📚✨ Program: adobe.ly/3z5Llud

Congrats, Will! 🥳 You’ll be great!

So wonderful to meet these creators and purchase a handful of new graphic novels today! 😍✨

5 of 5 stars to The Last Sorceress by Bonnie Wynne goodreads.com/review/show/54…

Applications to host an event for Love to Read Local Week 2023 are now open! 📚 Click here to book > ltrl.writingwa.org/virtual-event-…

✨FLASHSCAPES! ✨ Writing WA, Raine Square & Night Parrot Press, are delighted to open the 2023 Love to Read Local Flash Competition. We are seeking flash fiction and non-fiction pieces of 100-words or fewer, inspired by WA landscapes & seascapes > ltrl.writingwa.org/flash/

We are so excited to be celebrating Love to Read Local Week 2023 with Brendan Ritchie! 🎉✨ Brendan will be in conversation about his new release, ETA DRACONIS with Bianca Breen, then we'll be playing a bookish game 🙌 Free but please RSVP: bit.ly/3Lqbidv

Fantastic YA book panel with @marksmith0257 & Bianca Breen to finish off my Margaret River festival appearances. Thanx to the engaged writers who came along & submitted their microfiction entries & congrats to Louise for winning. I love country writers festivals - so good! 🤩🤩

So looking forward to this 😍✨

Congratulations on 100 episodes!!! 😍🎉

Love to Read Local Week starts tomorrow! Check out all the awesome and exciting free events taking place all over WA: ltrl.writingwa.org

We are so, so excited to be unveiling a sneak peek of the homepage of our new website! 👀🎉 Our team has been working behind the scenes to build a website that will better support the readers, writers, and educators of Australian YA 💕 We can’t wait for you to visit soon!😍📚

Happy #LoveToReadLocalWeek2023 ! Show us how you're celebrating this week by tagging us Writing WA and using the hashtag above 🥰🥰

PUBLISHING NEWS! 🎉 I’m absolutely over the moon to announce that THE INVENTOR AND THE COMET is being published with Stag Beetle Books! 🛠️💫 I’m so excited to finally be able to put this novel out into the world 🥰 #loveozya #debutauthor2025