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Two UWA Publishing titles recognised as winners in the 2026 Queensland Literary Awards
Lauren Pratt Awards Helena Pantsis Julianne Negri Mother Salad Queensland Literary Awards The Belly of a Wolf
Julianne Negri and Helena Pantsis named winners in the 2026 Queensland Literary Awards!
Margaret Grose's biography of Ernest H. Wilson shortlisted in the 2026 Landscape Australia Awards
Lauren Pratt Awards Landscape Australia Awards Margaret Grose Plant Collecting in Another Planet
Plant Collecting in Another Planet by Margaret Grose has been shortlisted in the 2026 Landscape Australia Awards in the Research, Policy and Communications category.
Helena Pantsis on ‘Mother Salad’ and the horrors of the mundane: using surrealism to confront societal pressures on women
Lauren Pratt Helena Pantsis Interview Mother Salad Naomi Becker
Helena Pantsis (she/they) explains how their surrealist writing in Mother Salad exposes and embodies the crushing pressure on women to ‘mother’. UWA Publishing intern Naomi Becker interviews Helena about her use of horror to capture life's fears, such as mortality, aging, and purpose. Helena also responds by sharing vulnerable insights into how the short-fiction collection was partly inspired by her witnessing initially non-conforming women give in to societal pressures. This discussion addresses her masterful use of absurdism to explore the stigmatised struggles women experience.
Teaching notes now available for Maya Follows Her Nose
Lauren Pratt Maya Follows Her Nose Teaching notes
Teaching notes for Maya Follows Her Nose by Nic Gill and Jake A Minton are now available for free download from UWA Publishing. These teaching notes have been prepared by Melinda Tognini and are freely available to assist teachers in the classroom.
Kaya Ortiz wins the inaugural Dr Charmaine Papertalk Green Smith Prize for Poetry in the 2026 WA Premier's Book Awards
Lauren Pratt Awards Kaya Ortiz Past & Parallel Lives WA Premier's Book Awards
UWA Publishing author, Kaya Ortiz, has been named the inaugural winner of the Dr Charmaine Papertalk Green Smith Prize for Poetry in the 2026 WA Premier's Book Awards.