Writerly Reads: KSP article series 2/7

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Your KS #48: The death of Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard died on the night of Thursday 2 October 1969. It came unexpectedly - she wasn’t in hospital and she didn’t...

Your KS #47: A Telegram About Beatrice

Last month, a builder renovating Katharine Susannah Prichard’s writing cabin found this telegram which had been hidden for decades. It’s...

Your KS #46: ‘Astir With Great Things’

On 26 June 2019, I submitted my PhD thesis, “Astir With Great Things: The Early Life of Katharine Susannah Prichard”. I started my...

Your KS #45: Doon Stone, Invisible Woman?

In November 1985, a public notice appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald asking for any person to come forward who had ‘any claim upon the...

Les Wicks: A Free Range Poet

The only complaint I have about my KSP residency is that it had to end! Time to write is one of the most precious gifts that can be given...

Your K.S. 43: Katharine Susannah and the Theatre

- Picture: playbill for Australian Drama Night, 1910 (University of New England). It’s apt that KSPWC will be commemorating the fiftieth...

Your K.S. 42: Katharine Susannah and Music

- Picture: The KSP piano in the Writers' Centre, current day. Katharine Susannah Prichard loved music and particularly the piano. She...

The Earth Lover

For Valentine's Day, I have unlocked the polished Jarrah display cabinet that stands next to the fireplace in the sitting room of the KSP...

Your K.S. #40: Katharine and Hugo’s 100th Wedding Anniversary

It’s Katharine and Hugo’s one hundredth wedding anniversary. Katharine Susannah Prichard, thirty-five, and Hugo Throssell, thirty-four,...

Your KS #39: Sweet Lavender

As I edit my biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, I’ve been cutting more words. One of the sections which just didn’t fit concerned...