Past Special Events - Launch

Launch of Lines in the Sand: New Western Australian writing, to celebrate 70 years of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in Western Australia, serving writers and promoting Australian Literature.

Edited by Julienne van Loon (prose) & Glen Phillips (poetry), the anthology includes a Foreword by John Kinsella, Patron of FAWWA; works by established West Australian authors like Liz Byrski, Alec Choate, Hal Colebatch, Robert Drewe, Nigel Gray, Nicholas Hasluck, Bruce Russell, Tracy Ryan, Barbara Temperton, Dianne Wolfer, & Fay Zwicky, together with works by up and coming writers like Sarah French, Campbell Jefferys, Julia Lawrinson, Megan McKinlay, Claire Potter, & Georgia Richter.

Grant Stone, Scholarly Resources Librarian, Murdoch University, launched the anthology, which was supported by funding from the Department for Culture & the Arts.

Sarah French, Megan Mckinlay, Georgia Richter, among writers present at the Launch. The display in the Centre for the Book featured highlights from 70 years of the Fellowship of Australian Writers in WA & some of its notable members.

One writer present called it: ‘the best writer attended function I have been to in WA for a long time!’

Among others – John Kinsella, …Langley-Kemp, Andrew Burke.

Mary-Ann Paton & Nicholas Hasluck

FAWWA Patron John Kinsella, Project Manager Joan Malpass & Managing Editor Trisha Kotai-Ewers

A trio of poets -- Peter Bibby, Glen Phillips & Bill Grono

Grant Stone, Senior Archives Librarian, Murdoch University, launches Lines in the Sand

Trisha Kotai-Ewers thanks Julienne van Loon, prose editor, and Glen Phillips, poetry editor.

John Harman (left) with Bruce Russell.

Shane McAuley talks with Murray Jennings, copy editor.

Some of the many writers present, with parts of the display for FAWWA’s 70th anniversary.