Image: Courtesy of KSP Foundation Inc. Left to right: Lily Lewit-Willoughby, Ruth Bronkhorst, Liesel Kok, Annabel Wolstenholme, Catherine Morris, Alex Bissett
Earlier this year it was announced that the prestigious WA Premier’s Book Awards was to be shifted from an annual tradition to a biannual event, the cut saving the State Government about $65,000.
Since the literary community voiced their unhappy reactions, disappointment has rippled through the WA community, with Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre (KSP) seeing an immediate effect on its young writers.