Nov 6, 2018
From London to KSP - A Writer in Residence report ... plus top writerly website resources
I’ve just left my KSP residency and I’m off to the next exciting chapter, featuring at Ubud’s writing festival (in Bali). The swooping...
Nov 1, 2018
I Came So Far For Beauty
It’s my last day in the Clarke Cabin at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre – I’m doing the final load of washing, putting...
Oct 31, 2018
Your KS #38: Katharine and Hugo’s engagement, 100 years ago this month
The Herald, 10 December 1918, 3. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242671406 This month, November 2018, the world will be marking the...
Oct 2, 2018
A People's Retreat
People often see a retreat as getting away from people, escaping into your own world and disappearing from sight for a period of time. In...
Sep 27, 2018
Your KS #37: The Birth of Ric Throssell
Katharine Susannah Prichard with baby Ric. (Photo: Papers of KSP, National Library of Australia) My daughter, Sarah, was born at the end...
Aug 30, 2018
Your KS #36: Katharine’s ‘dear, good comrades’, Joan and Vic Williams
Joan Williams was a communist, a journalist, and a writer whose activism spanned from the 1930s to the 1990s. Her memoir Anger and Love...
Aug 1, 2018
Your KS #35: Intimate Strangers, A Beach Novel
Picture: Katharine Susannah Prichard and Ric Throssell, ca. 1926. National Library of Australia, MS6201/1/14. In the middle of winter,...
Jul 1, 2018
Your KS #34: More of Katharine’s Stories Online
For the last year, the National Library has been digitising The Bulletin and making it freely available on the Trove site. The Bulletin...
May 22, 2018
Clarke Cabin Confab
When I first arrived at KSP, I struggled with the silence. Used to working in the bustle of a busy café or with my cat meowing for...
May 1, 2018
Reflections on a Fellowship
Some words pull along others, train-like, trailing imagery woven by our experience, popular culture, imagination and expectations. For...