We’re excited to be kicking off book reviews on the Editor’s Desk for 2026 with ‘That Galloping Horse’ by Petra White (@shearsmanbooks.bsky.social)! ‘[...] a showcase of free verse poems expressed with often chillingly beautiful intensity'. Read it here: shorturl.at/X7IOC #AusLit #bookreview

We have amazing news! Westerly Online Special Issue: Archive Reflections (OSI17) just dropped and is free for all to enjoy! This one's guest edited by former Westerly Editor, Catherine Noske. Download it here: shorturl.at/7kZh8 #AusLit #LitMag

This week's #bookreview was the winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature 2024, 'Chinese Fish' by Grace Yee (@giramondobooks.bsky.social)! 'This is breathtaking sophistication that still manages to keep its feet on the ground and remain accessible.' Read it here: shorturl.at/Q3N11 #poetryreview

🤩 Who’s ready for a weekend of amazing Talks and Workshops? 🤩 Whether you’re attending our Academy Day, the Market Day or both! Our team has lined up a fantastic program full of insightful talks and engaging workshops. 🎟️ Click to get your tickets! -> events.humanitix.com/host/perth-c... 🎟️

🤿 Dive into the #WesterlyMag archive with us! From Westerly 13.2: Young Writers Issue, enjoy ‘Soldier, Soldier’, a poem written by one of Australia’s finest poets, Gwen Harwood, writing as one of her many alter egos, Timothy Kline. This issue was published in 1968. Read it here: shorturl.at/Thb7F

New #bookreview! 'Monument' by Bonny Cassidy (@giramondobooks.bsky.social) 'is a complex contribution to the project of truth telling about Australia’s colonial past, and a sweeping insight into the histories of our colonial past, understood on a familial scale'. Read it here: shorturl.at/DqG2U

Only 2 more sleeps to the launch of Westerly 69.2! We're so excited to share this wonderful new collection of writing with the world. Please join us for an evening of readings, nibbles & excellent conversation in beautiful Walyalup 🎉🥂 RSVP in-person or attendance via live-stream: shorturl.at/78gZF

The launch of Westerly 69.2 is in 3 days! Please come and celebrate with us 🎉 There are still some spots left for in-person attendance at the Fremantle Library on Thursday 1 May at 6pm! Can't make it in person? Please join us via live stream. RSVP here: shorturl.at/78gZF #AusLit #LitMagLaunch

Dive into the Westerly archive with us! We’re excited to share a new work from a past issue every week, beginning today with a collection of three poems by Clément Marot, translated by Randolph Stow, from the very first issue of Westerly Magazine published in 1956. Read it here: shorturl.at/tMvQH

📣 Presales for Westerly 69.2 are live! 📣 Featuring new work from writers and artists across WA, Australia and the world, 69.2 showcases a range of contemporary #poetry, #fiction, #nonfiction and, for the first time, #comics, with a piece from WA artist Nina Dakin. Find it here: bit.ly/692Presale

✨ Westerly 69.2 cover reveal! ✨ ‘Untitled #11’ (2023) is by photographer Emma Phillips. It comes from a collaboration in Issue 69.2, 'The River as Bloodline', between Emma, Paul Collis, Jen Crawford, Wayne Knight & Paul Magee. RSVP for 69.2's launch on 1 May at Fremantle Library: shorturl.at/78gZF

Have a read of our review of 'The Swift Dark Tide' by Katia Ariel! Shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize, reviewer Fiona Wilkes calls it 'a miracle of poetry, memoir and essay'. Read it here: shorturl.at/N8CSi #AusLit #lifewriting #memoir #StellaPrize #bookreview

'Hello Keanu! A poetry anthology' edited by Emily Sun and Sarah Yeung, is this week's #bookreview! Reviewer Jenny Hedley writes that this anthology is 'an echoing chorus which meditates upon deeper issues of justice and equality, with a measure of hot sex'. Read it here: shorturl.at/1mzpg #AusLit

Read @bodilyofferings.bsky.social's review of Kate Larsen's fascinating debut poetry collection, 'Public. Open. Space.'! Ellie writes that this book 'is a conversation as much as it is a poetry collection'. Read it here: shorturl.at/Oil #digitalpoetics #poetryreview #bookreview #litmag #auslit

Read Lisa Collyer's review of Jerome Masamaka's 'Under The Tattered Roof' (Centre for Stories/Red River Press) on our website! Lisa writes that the message in this ecopoetry collection is 'clear and eloquently communicated: the climate emergency is the apocalypse. Now'. Read here: shorturl.at/Jg3sO