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Announcing the winner of the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award

June 17, 2024 • Lauren Pratt • DHA 2024 • Kaya Ortiz • Past and Parallel Lives • The Dorothy Hewett Award

UWA Publishing, with thanks to the Copyright Agency, is excited to be announcing the winner of the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award!

Cassy Polimeni is introducing habitat conservation to kids in a magical way with her new junior fiction series 'Ella and the Frogs'

June 12, 2024 • Lauren Pratt • Cassy Polimeni • Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra • Ella and the Frogs • Interview • Junior Fiction • Samantha Hearn • YA and Children's

Ella and the Amazing Frog Orchestra is a junior fiction book exploring themes of environment preservation, endangered species (frogs), finding home and human kindness. In this interview author Cassy Polimeni chats to UWAP intern Samantha Hearn about the first book in the Ella and the Frogs series.

Getting to know 2024 DHA shortlistee, Rhian Healy

June 11, 2024 • Lauren Pratt • DHA2024 • Interview • Rhian Healy • Samantha Hearn • The Dorothy Hewett Award

My Heart is a Plastic Shoe is an unpublished poetry collection centred around the natural world, family bonds and relationships, and is shortlisted for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award. In this mini-interview, Healy shares what it feels like to be shortlisted and the motivation behind the collection.

Getting to know 2024 DHA shortlistee, Rachel Bowman

June 11, 2024 • Lauren Pratt • DHA2024 • Interview • Rachel Bowman • Samantha Hearn • The Dorothy Hewett Award

The Fear of Empty Spaces by Rachel Bowman is an unpublished haunting historical novel that is shortlisted for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award. In this mini-interview, Bowman shares what it feels like to be shortlisted and the challenges of writing historical fiction.

Getting to know 2024 DHA shortlistee, Kimberley Lipschus

June 11, 2024 • Lauren Pratt • DHA2024 • Interview • Kimberley Lipschus • Samantha Hearn • The Dorothy Hewett Award

The Lost House by Kimberley Lipschus is a fractured reality, fairytale-like unpublished novel manuscript that is shortlisted for the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award. In this mini-interview, Lipschus shares what it feels like to be shortlisted, the importance of writing and the novel’s inspiration.