

Oct 13, 2021
Keeping KSP Alive: Our 2021 Heritage Grant Project
Late last year, the KSP Writers' Centre was one of only 61 lucky organisations selected to receive heritage grant funding from the...


Aug 6, 2021
Your KS #68 – The Joys of Editing
By Nathan Hobby I’ve just finished working on the copy-edits for my biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard. There’s nothing like having...


Jul 8, 2021
Your KS #67 – Katharine Susannah Prichard in a new Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates biography
By Nathan Hobby Katharine Susannah Prichard is a minor character in Eleanor Hogan’s splendid new biography, Into the Loneliness: the...


May 11, 2017
Your KS #21: Katharine Susannah Prichard’s Golden Miles
As I’ve been writing about Katharine Susannah Prichard’s experience of World War One for my biography, I’ve been re-reading one of her...


May 2, 2017
Your KS #20: Lightning Ridge and Black Opal, 1916-1921
Pictured left: Katharine's novel, The Black Opal I’ve been researching Katharine Susannah Prichard’s trip to the opal fields at Lightning...

Apr 11, 2017
Your KS #19: Hugo Throssell
I’m up to 1915 in my biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, the year she met her future husband, Hugo Throssell, in London. He’d just...

Jul 1, 2016
Your KS #12: Katharine Votes
Soviet Aid meeting, Brisbane, October 1941. KSP is in the first row, third from right, wearing a feather boa. Photograph digitised by...


Apr 4, 2016
Your KS #9: Following Katharine to Yarram
Nathan in front of the unassuming Mechanics’ Institute in Yarram, built in 1885, where KSP played the lead role in Sweet Lavender. In...


Mar 1, 2016
Your KS #8: Following Katharine to Emerald
Nathan in front of the writers’ mural at Emerald Lake Park with KSP, Vance and Nettie Palmer, and CJ Dennis In January, my intermittent,...


Feb 1, 2016
Your KS #7: Katharine the Celebrity, Melbourne 1916
Exactly a hundred years ago, Katharine Susannah Prichard returned to Melbourne after five years abroad. Celebrity mattered even during...