Marginalia

Mohammed Massoud Morsi named the winner of the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award

July 31, 2025 • Lauren Pratt • Mohammed Massoud Morsi • The Dorothy Hewett Award • The Hair of the Pigeon

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Agency is excited to announce that the winner of the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award is Mohammed Massoud Morsi for his unpublished fiction manuscript The Hair of the Pigeon.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.

July 15, 2025 • Lauren Pratt • fiction • Interview • Pip Smith • Reilly McGrath • The Pull of the Moon • YA • YA and Children's

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

July 11, 2025 • Lauren Pratt • Interview • Reilly McGrath • The Dorothy Hewett Award • Tim Loveday

Bad Westerns is an unpublished poetry collection that is shortlisted for the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award.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.

Getting to know 2025 DHA shortlistee, Roderick Poole

July 11, 2025 • Lauren Pratt • Interview • Reilly McGrath • Roderick Poole • The Dorothy Hewett Award

you are HERE is an unpublished novel that is shortlisted for the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award. In this short interview, with UWA Publishing intern Reilly McGrath, Roderick Poole shares how it feels to be shortlisted and his advice for writers looking to submit to the Dorothy Hewett Award in the future.

Getting to know 2025 DHA shortlistee, N. J. Madden

July 11, 2025 • Lauren Pratt • Interview • N. J. Madden • Reilly McGrath • The Dorothy Hewett Award

Laughing River is an unpublished novel that is shortlisted for the 2025 Dorothy Hewett Award. In this short interview, with UWA Publishing intern Reilly McGrath, N. J. Madden shares how it feels to be shortlisted and his advice for writers looking to submit to the Dorothy Hewett Award in the future.