One hundred years ago this month, the Australasian published a heart-warming Christmas story by Katharine Susannah Prichard called “Danny...

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...

Picture: an advertisement in The West Australian, 18 December 1920, from www.trove.nla.gov.au. I’ve finally begun researching Katharine...

Last month, the English and Cultural Studies discipline at UWA held a three-minute thesis session. Like other participants, I had to sum...

Picture: Frederick McCubbin’s Lost (1886) “Them still hills are weird on a man. At night, in the moonlight, the dead trees are ghostly....

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...

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...

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...

Our community has suffered a tragic loss in the recent, unexpected death of KSP Writers' Centre member Caroline Sambridge. Caroline was a...

Rashida Murphy is a published author and the KSP Emerging Writer-in-Residence for May/June 2017. She obtained her Masters in English...