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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...

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...

Top Tip Tuesdays!

Hello and welcome to KSP's Top Tip Tuesday blog series, designed to inspire your writing habits - or just distract you for a few moments!...

Katharine Susannah - Red Witch or Lavender Lady?

Coming up on Sunday 6 October, we invite you to visit the KSP Writers' Centre for a wonderful spring day of commemoration activities at...

Your KS #34: More of Katharine’s Stories Online

For the last year, the National Library has been digitising The Bulletin and making it freely available on the Trove site. The Bulletin...

Your KS #22: Hugo Throssell and Horses

Katharine Susannah Prichard and her husband, Hugo Throssell, would have approved of KSP Writers' Centre’s 2017 Story Horse Project....

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...

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...

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...

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,...