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Alice Pung: Laurinda – In Conversation with Tim Watts MP – Review
It was like we were watching the first steps of what could become a lifelong friendship. A particularly Australian friendship. The Alice and Tim Show came to the Williamstown Literary Festival. It was...
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La Mama Poetica at Willy Lit Fest 2015 – Review
Amanda Anastasi, curator of one Melbourne’s best regular spoken word events, held at the La Mama Courthouse Theatre, Drummond Street, Carlton, brought a mini version of a La Mama evening to the Lit...
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Madness, Poetry and Memoir – Review
William Saroyan – the Pulitzer Prize winning author – wrote these words. “I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away...
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Steve Carroll Talks Writing and Rhythm – A Review
The relationship between you, the page and the pen I arrived unfashionably late to Steve Carroll’s session and entered to catch Carroll talking of once having been in an Eagles cover band. As a fan of...
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The Footpath Library at Willy Lit Fest 2015 – Review
Photo – Jenny Bates I love Richard Piper and I was delighted to be able to announce it to the audience (and my husband) when I had the pleasure of introducing The Footpath Library in The Chamber on...
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Reflections from the 2015 Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose winner – Adam...
After a long period in the literary desert, I decided to start writing again exactly a year ago – for the Adas in 2014. It was a poem that was short-listed. Encouraged, I began to write short stories...
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John Marsden at Willy Lit Fest 2015 – Review
Knowing we were in for a treat, a large crowd assembled in the Supper Room to listen to John Marsden. John is a master story-teller. We knew that anyway, but how lucky were we to hear him relate a...
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Two Sides to Every Story – Lucia Nardo
Two sides to every story Participating as an entrant then as a judge in the Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize, demands different perspectives on each story As their names are called and the Ada...
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Suzi Mezei – Winner of the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize 2015
Much of my poetry resides in drawers or boxes. The Adas meant that two poems saw daylight again; they were clipped, groomed, vigorously edited and entered. To have them shortlisted and published in...
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Catch and Kill – Joel Deane and Steve Bracks
Hobsons Bay Libraries invite you to Catch and Kill—The politics of power - on Tuesday 1 September, 6.45pm – 8.15pm at Williamstown Library, 104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown Catch and Kill is an inside...
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Poetry workshop for aspiring Ada Cambridge Poetry entrants
Hobsons Bay Libraries is hosting a poetry workshop with Dr Chris Ringrose, Adjunct Associate Professor of English at Monash University on Saturday 21 November 2015 from 10.00am – 12.45pm. The workshop...
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2016 Ada Cambridge and Young Ada writing competitions are now open
Entries are now being accepted for the 2016 Ada Cambridge and Young Ada writing competitions. The prizes are open to writers and poets who live, work or study in the western suburbs of Melbourne. There...
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Weekend Reading 2 – Barb Hughes, WLF Executive Officer
For my recent big birthday my husband, Brian, gave me a pair of beautiful bronze bookends in the shape of Art Deco ladies. Too lovely to bury in the bookcase, I put them near the window in the...
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My best read of 2016 – Chris Ringrose
Willy Lit Fest Committee Member, Prof Chris Ringrose reviews his best read of 2016 so far – Shifting by Helen and Serge Cerne, Vulgar Press, Melbourne 2015. This beautifully-written dual autobiography...
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Leigh Hobbs is The New Australian Children’s Laureate
The Williamstown Literary Festival committee extend our congratulations to much loved local author and artist, Leigh Hobbs, on his appointment as the Australian Children’s Laureate. Leigh Hobbs,...
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Reflections on The Adas
“The Ada Cambridge prize holds a special place in my heart.” Anna Brasier In 2004, before the birth of my third child, I rekindled my love for writing. Every week I met with like-minded mums at a...
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The Adas: eligible postcodes
Do you live, work or study in Melbourne’s vibrant western suburbs? Melbourne’s Westgate Bridge If you live in one of the 58 postcodes listed below you are eligible to enter one of the four Ada...
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THE Ada Cambridge Prize: Previous winners
The Adas 2015 2015 The Ada Cambridge Biographical Prose Prize 2015 Winner The Journey Home Adam Deverell The Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize 2015 Winner Lodger Suzi Mezei The Young Adas Short Story Prize...
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Willy Lit Fest is on Instagram
We’re on instagram now and we’d love you to get social with us here and on facebook if you’re not already. And if you sign up to receive our enewsletter too you’ve got all our social media bases...
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Olga Lorenzo – The Light on the Water – Willy Lit Fest 2016
Olga Lorenzo is a guest author at this year’s Willy Lit Fest with her latest novel, The Light on the Water and will be discussing it with Lucia Nardo, a long time friend of the Willy Lit Fest....
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