- Aug 1, 2020
Your KS #57: Katharine’s secret pseudonym, ‘Val West’
I’ve found a lost Katharine Susannah Prichard book—sort of—and a pseudonym so secret she never knew about it. Some time after Katharine...
- Jul 1, 2020
Your KS #56: Katharine Susannah and Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement has spread from America around the world in the last weeks. Katharine Susannah Prichard’s encounters with...
- Jun 9, 2020
Your KS #55: Katharine Susannah from Cradle to Grave
As reported last month, Melbourne University Press will be publishing my biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard in 2021. It’s going to...
- May 1, 2020
Your KS #54: Mrs Grundy’s Mission
Often Katharine Susannah Prichard wrote with great seriousness, striving to create art or to change the world. But other times she wrote...
- Apr 1, 2020
Your KS #53: Katharine Susannah on living through hard times
Picture: trove.nla.gov.au, Sunday Times, 27 July 1919, 1 There’s only a handful of Australians alive today who have any memory of the...
- Feb 29, 2020
Your KS #52: Hugo Throssell Memorial
Picture: the memorial in 2017, author “Wikirowdy”, from Wikimedia Commons. On the corner of Great Eastern Highway and Old York Road, just...
- Feb 1, 2020
Your KS #51: Katharine Stays with Miles Franklin
- Pictures: page from “Item 40: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1947”, and #174 from “Photographs of Miles Franklin, c. 1879-1954”, both...
- Dec 17, 2019
Locating Australian Literary Memory
In December I launched my book Locating Australian Literary Memory which explores the work of eleven authors and the sites,...
- Oct 30, 2019
Your KS #49: Signature in a book
Last night when I should have been doing something else, I took one of my most prized KSP books off the shelf. It’s a first edition of...
- Oct 15, 2019
Congratulation to Kaleidoscope Winners
On Sunday 6 October 2019, special guest Karen Throssell (grand-daughter of Katharine and Hugo), Wild Weeds Press and the KSP Writers'...