Margaret River Press

At the weekend, I attended the 5^th Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival.  It was the best of the three festivals I have attended over the years in Margaret River.  My congratulations to the organizing team led by Danielle Haigh. 

What a wonderful idea - A Day of Literary Feasting to be hosted by Nedlands Library on the 20th of May.   This all day event celebrates writing with author talks, workshops and expert tips from professional publishers and writers  Caroline and Lynne will be one of many participating in the event.  For more information and to register visit : A Day of Literary Feasting

A interesting and diverse range of speakers that includes Lynne Leonhardt will appear at the Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne. 

Kate Rizzetti's story, 'Cool Change' appears in our publication 'Fire'.  She spoke to us about her writing.

Anne Skyvington is a writer, teacher of writing, blogger and is currently finishing a memoir on early childhood memories for self publication as an e-book.  She was President of the Bondi Writing Group from 2010-2012.  Here is her review of, 'Knitting & other stories'.

Karen Throssell has had three collections of poetry published—The Old King and other poems (2003),Remembering how to cry (2004)  and Chain of Hearts (2012). Her poetry has been published in Overland, Quadrant, POAM and Artstreams, and her poems appear monthly in her local Warrandyte paper, The Warrandyte Diary.

Friday, May 17th

Sophie Mathewson, our Publishing Assistant presented a cheque of $300 to Witchcliffe Brigade Captain, Richard Nash.