Nov 6, 2017
Your KS #27: The Quest for Wandu
Above image: Burgess Save-Way as it was in 1959. Used with permission of Ross Burgess and Remember Midland. Last month I wrote about my...
Oct 4, 2017
Your KS #26: Wandu Weekend Tea Rooms – Greenmount’s Star Attraction
Picture: an advertisement in The West Australian, 18 December 1920, from www.trove.nla.gov.au. I’ve finally begun researching Katharine...
Sep 6, 2017
Your KS #25: The early life of Katharine Susannah Prichard in three minutes
Last month, the English and Cultural Studies discipline at UWA held a three-minute thesis session. Like other participants, I had to sum...
Aug 1, 2017
Your KS #24: Katharine turns gothic in 1907
Picture: Frederick McCubbin’s Lost (1886) “Them still hills are weird on a man. At night, in the moonlight, the dead trees are ghostly....
Jul 13, 2017
Doggo
You asked me what I thought of you and this is what I said, “You’re funny, nice, and talk a lot!” But here’s what I really meant: You’re...
Jul 13, 2017
Feature Article - A Fictional Story
She sat floating in a light blue cloud of nothingness. It coddled her, soothed her body and relaxed her muscles. Samira wasn’t aware of...
Jul 1, 2017
Your KS # 23: The Grey Horse
In 1924, Katharine Susannah Prichard’s short story “The Grey Horse” won a competition run by the magazine Art in Australia. It’s a dark...
May 31, 2017
Your KS #22: Hugo Throssell and Horses
Katharine Susannah Prichard and her husband, Hugo Throssell, would have approved of KSP Writers' Centre’s 2017 Story Horse Project....
May 17, 2017
KSP Presents Volunteer Service Award to Glen Phillips
On Sunday 7th May at the Open Day of the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre ECU Honorary Professor Glen Phillips was presented...
May 11, 2017
Your KS #21: Katharine Susannah Prichard’s Golden Miles
As I’ve been writing about Katharine Susannah Prichard’s experience of World War One for my biography, I’ve been re-reading one of her...