Margaret River
Readers & Writers Festival

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2018 VISUAL STORIES ART COMPETITION WINNERS: 1st Place: Rika Rouw – ‘They came to Margs’ 2nd – Kashmir Rouw – ‘Jarrah Totemic Head’ 3rd – Ken and Robyn Collins – ‘Encased’

An Interview with Tiffany Hastie – Winner of the South West Prize in the 2018 Margaret River Short Story Competition Your story ‘The Chopping Block’ won the South West Prize in the MR Short Story competition. How did you approach the story from conception through to completion? Were there certain challenges in its execution? A […]

Join celebrated international writers Geraldine Brooks and Assaf Gavron, together with Avner Gvaryahu, Executive Director of Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence – as they provide a deeper understanding of the conflict in a special Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival event.

Entry to the Visual Stories Art Competition Exhibition is now open. This year’s festival theme is ‘Stories that shape us’ and artists are asked to respond to the theme with a 3D artwork in the form of a ‘Story Pole’. Entries will be exhibited at the festival hub in Voyager Estate’s Gardens from 21 May to 3 June. Entries close 10 May.