Dec 19, 2017
Thanks Everyone - 2017 KSP Wrap-Up
As we enter the final weeks of 2017, it is a nice time to reflect on those who have helped shape the Centre throughout the year. On...
Dec 7, 2017
KSP's 2017 Competition Winners
It was a beautiful hot summer day last Sunday for Katharine's Birthday celebrations, where we paid tribute to our namesake and presented...
Dec 1, 2017
Your KS #28: Christmas 1917
One hundred years ago this month, the Australasian published a heart-warming Christmas story by Katharine Susannah Prichard called “Danny...
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...