Encouraging writing related activities in the Perth Hills whilst preserving the heritage value of the former home of leading Australian writer, Katharine Susannah Prichard.
The ambience of the place, and the encouraging attitude of all those concerned with it, can do nothing but further enhance and nurture a writer's career.The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre is the oldest writers centre of its kind in Australia. The centre is located in the Perth hills, in the former home of Katharine Susannah Prichard, author of Coonardoo, Working Bullocks and The Goldfields Trilogy. The Centre encourages and facilitates writers' readings, workshops, writers in residence and other services, all designed to help and encourage writers at all levels of the craft.Susan Laura Sullivan
Poet, Novelist and former KSP Emerging writer in residence