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UWA Publishing has acquired world rights to Helena Pantsis' collection of short stories
Acquisition Helena Pantsis Mother Salad
Lauren Pratt

UWA Publishing has acquired world rights to Mother Salad, a collection of short stories, by Naarm-based author Helena Pantsis for publication in 2026.
Emily Tsokos Purtill named winner in the WA Premier's Book Awards for her multi-generational Greek-Australian novel
Awards Emily Tsokos Purtill MATIA WA Premier's Book Awards
Lauren Pratt

Western Australian author, Emily Tsokos Purtill has won the Emerging Writer award in the 2025 WA Premier's Book Awards for her debut novel Matia.
Mohammed Massoud Morsi named the winner of the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award
Mohammed Massoud Morsi The Dorothy Hewett Award The Hair of the Pigeon
Lauren Pratt

UWA Publishing and the Copyright Agency is excited to announce that the winner of the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award is Mohammed Massoud Morsi for his unpublished fiction manuscript The Hair of the Pigeon.
Pip Smith speaks with UWAP intern Reilly McGrath about 'The Pull of the Moon' and the challenges of mingling fact with fiction.
fiction Interview Pip Smith Reilly McGrath The Pull of the Moon YA YA and Children's
Lauren Pratt

The Pull of the Moon (2025) is the anticipated second novel by Sydney-based author Pip Smith, whose debut work Half Wild (2017) won her an SMH Best Young Australian Novelist award in 2018.
Getting to know 2025 DHA shortlistee, Tim Loveday
Interview Reilly McGrath The Dorothy Hewett Award Tim Loveday
Lauren Pratt

Bad Westerns is an unpublished poetry collection that is shortlisted for the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award. In this short interview, with UWA Publishing intern Reilly McGrath, Tim Loveday shares how it feels to be shortlisted and his advice for writers looking to submit to the Dorothy Hewett Award in the future.