Festival director and journalist Will Yeoman has been selected to lead Writing WA as chief executive, taking over from the former boss Sharon Flindell.
A new collaboration between Perth Festival's Writers Week and The Literature Centre is promising to expand the centre's audience reach to an adult demographic.
This year marks a changing of the guard at the Perth Writers Festival, with Katherine Dorrington stepping down as program manager and The West Australian's literary editor, William Yeoman, stepping in to curate the festival in a guest capacity.