Author of Matia (UWAP, 2024) Winner of the 2025 Western Australian Premier's Book Award for an Emerging Writer
Patricia Frazis has written a review of Matia in Westerly! You can read it here: Review of ‘Matia’ by Emily Tsokos Purtill | Westerly Magazine‘Matia’ by Emily Tsokos Purtill (UWA Publishing) follows four generations of women from a diasporic Greek Australian community.Westerly Magazinelissa
UPDATE: This event is sold out, but waitlist is available. -- I'm so pleased to announce that I'll be appearing at the 2026 Festival of Fiction at ECU in Joondalup along with a huge lineup of Australian authors on the weekend of 21-22 November 2026. Festival
I’m very grateful to the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund for the 2026 Writer’s Fellowship, the culmination of which was the ASAL annual conference hosted by the University of Queensland in Brisbane last week. The theme was ‘Australian Literature in
Thanks to Neos Kosmos for the profile this week after the Food for Thought Network Q&A on Sunday 31 May 2026: The stories Greek women carry — and the ones they’re finally tellingAs the Food For Thought Network marks 25 years, a landmark literary event reminds us that
Pictured above is part of the library at the Centre for Stories where I am a Mid Career Fellow. It’s such a beautiful room to read and write in. I'll be sending out an email newsletter shortly with my updates on news, events and reading. You can
