Louise Helfgott

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Louise Helfgott is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Creative Writing from Edith Cowan University. Recent credits include Thistledown Seed, published July 2022 by Brandl and Schlesinger and shortlisted Dorothy Hewett Awards, 2018, WA Premier’s Book Awards 2023; Potchnagoola, commissioned and staged by the Katharine Susannah Prichard Centre, October 2019; Light of her Eye Todhunter Literary Award, 2014; Staged 2018 Perth Fringe Festival; Frames staged Subiaco Arts Centre, 2014; A Closer Sky nominated AWGIE award, 2005; The Bridge – shortlisted New Musicals Australia 2011; Can You Hold the Sun? – Poetry anthology published by Free XpresSion 2004