Creative Writing Workshop with Westwords - Ages: 18+ @ Liverpool City Library (Yellamundie)
Description
The 2026 Living Stories Western Sydney Writing Prize: Is It True ...?
The Living Stories Western Sydney Writing Prize returns for its 6th year in 2026.
As you prepare to enter the competition, join us for a free creative writing workshop, hosted by participating libraries across Western Sydney, presented by local professional authors.
The writing workshops will help you prepare your entry: either a short story/narrative non-fiction (up to 500 words) or a poem (up to 25 lines). This year, participants are asked to write in response to the theme: Is It True ...?
Participants must be 18 years and older to attend the program. To ensure the success and safety of the program, anyone outside of the specified age range may have their ticket cancelled.
Wednesday 25 March
6pm - 7.30pm
Liverpool City Library
About the Presenter
Paris Rosemont
Paris Rosemont is a multi-disciplinary, multi-award-winning Thai Australian writer, educator, and author of poetry collections Banana Girl (2023) and Barefoot Poetess (2025) (WestWords). Her books have been shortlisted for awards in Australia, Greece, UK and USA, with the latter awarded Distinguished Favorite in the NYC Big Book Award 2025. Widely published in a plethora of literary journals and anthologies including Australian Poetry Journal, Splinter, and Sky Island Journal, Paris was named winner of the Matthew Rocca Poetry Prize 2025 and received nominations for the Best of the Net 2025 and Pushcart Prize 2026. She is a critic for Mascara Literary Journal, Guest Editor for Written Off Literary Journal, and sits on the Hunter Writers’ Centre Board. She is also an appointed member of Randwick City Council Arts & Culture Advisory Committee and was a judge for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards 2025. Paris’s chapbook >>glitch<< will be released in 2026 through queer indie publishing house Incision Press. She is currently working on her debut novel Bruised Fruit, exploring diaspora, desire, and cultural inheritance.
About Living Stories
Living Stories is a creative writing competition open to residents of Western Sydney and Wingecarribee Shire, offering an opportunity at publication and cash prizes from a pool of over $12,000.
You may enter the competition, even if you are unable to attend a free workshop. You may attend a free workshop, even if you are unable to enter the competition.
To enter, and for more information, please visit: www.westwords.com.au/living-stories/
Living Stories is made possible thanks to the generous support of our 2026 partners: WestLit Libraries, Create NSW, Arab Bank Australia, and Australian Catholic University.
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