Coming up
8 November: Author talk, A.H. Bracks Library, corner Canning Highway and Stock Road, Melville, 6–8pm. Free event but bookings essential here.
15 November: Great Big Book Club Read, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle, 6pm. (The winner of the T.A.G. Hungerford Award will also be announced on the same night.) Free event but RSVPs essential here.
25 November: Morning tea + film + panel discussion, The Children Act. Windsor Cinema, 10.30am. Details and booking link here.
Past events—photos, 2018
In conversation with the wonderful Geraldine Blake at Beaufort Street Books
Rose from Westbooks setting up for the first library talk for Kathleen O’Connor of Paris. A big thank-you to Bassendean Memorial Library and Westbooks.
Pip Brennan and her lovely friends—first book club for Kathleen O’Connor of Paris
Gallery talk/book signing, Fremantle Arts Centre, 22 September.
Launch by Mike Lefroy, Kathleen O’Connor of Paris (Fremantle Press) and the exhibition Being There—Kathleen O’Connor in Paris (Fremantle Arts Centre), 13 September.
With artist Jo Darvall, Like Water, April 2018
Past events—photos, 2017
WA Writers Professional Development Day, July 2017, with UWA Publishing Director Terri-ann White, and writers Rashida Murphy and Josephine Wilson
Writers hard at work. Workshop presented for OOTA (Out of the Asylum Writers) at the beautiful Mattie Furphy House, Swanbourne, March 2017
Past events—photos, 2016
Workshop group at Rockingham Writers Centre, November 2016. Photo by Teena Raffa-Mulligan
Talk at Shetland Library, Lerwick…
Talk at the Madhatter Bookshop, Burford, Cotswolds…
At Toppings & Co. Booksellers, Bath
At The Edinburgh Bookshop
Books by the Bay, Busselton, July 2016, with Shelley Gare (standing), Joan London, Fiona Palmer and Stephen Daisley—excellent company!
Past events—photos, 2015
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, 2015
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali, 2015
At Avon Valley Writers Festival. Photo courtesy Ian Reid
Discussing Elemental with Richard Rossiter at the 2015 Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival
‘Writing the Past’ workshop at the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ beautiful Mattie Furphy House in Swanbourne, July 2015
Past events—photos, 2014
A huge event for 2014: announcement of the WA Premier’s Book Awards. Elemental was shortlisted in the Fiction and People’s Choice categories.
The lovely ladies of Janet Moullin’s book club, March 2014, discussing Elemental and enjoying a supper of all things Scottish: smoked salmon, Dundee cake, shortbread. Delicious!
Book signing at the Angelo Street Marketplace with Natasha Lester (author of If I Should Lose You and What Is Left Over, After) and Dawn Barker (author of Fractured)
Past events—photos, 2013
Elemental book launch, May 2013, photo by Glen Martin
Janet Holmes à Court launches Elemental
‘Time and memory: readings, images, music’, at the Gadfly Gallery, September 2013
‘Time and memory: readings, images, music’: Anna Kwiecinska (Gadfly Gallery), Antonio Casella (novelist), Amanda Curtin (novelist), William Yeoman (poet, musician)
‘Writing Your Life’ workshop for Yirra Yaakin
The lovely Pauline McLeod setting up for an author talk at Margaret River Bookshop, as part of the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, 2013
Writing workshop, Manjimup Library
Thanks to all the book clubs who chose Elemental in 2013. Here are three: Fiona Daga’s group (top); Dot Longnecker’s ‘Read between the Wines’ group (middle); Sandy Boulter’s group (bottom)
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