Alex Dook

Book Review: Be prepared to stay up all night reading Alex Dook’s Gunpowder Creek

It’s hard to believe that Gunpowder Creek is Alex Dook‘s first novel – probably because it’s not. The Perth-based writer has been recognised twice for the Fremantle Press Fogarty Literary Award with a long-listing in 2019 and a shortlisting in 2021, though neither manuscript was picked up at the time. In the fifteen or so years that…

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Brooke Dunnell wins the 2021 Fogarty Literary Award with her last minute manuscript

, Last night saw Brooke Dunnell announced as the winner of the 2021 Fogarty Literary Award at the ECU Spiegeltent. Dunnell receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation, along with a publishing contract with Fremantle Press for her winning manuscript The Glass House.  The Fogarty Literary Award is for Western Australian writers aged…

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