Alphabet Soup Books

07/04/2025

School holidays activities: poetry with Meg McKinlay!

In this fun activity led by children's author and poet Meg McKinlay, you'll craft short, one-of-a-kind poems using words and phrases cut out from magazines and old books. Mix and match different styles, fonts, and colours to bring your poem to life in a whole new way. Let’s turn ordinary words int...

21/03/2025

Happy World Poetry Day! And thank you to The Literature Centre for stocking these excellent poetry books. 🌟

27/02/2025

Happy first Birthday to Right Way Down! (2024 animation by Cindy Lane Art)

Sally Murphy Briony Stewart Rebecca M Newman - Children's writer & poet Fremantle Press

21/02/2025

Submissions for the poetry anthology for children are now closed.

21/02/2025

Love a deadline? Poetry anthology submissions close tonight, 11.59pm AWST, Friday 21st February 2025.

18/02/2025

Closing Friday 21st February

Fremantle Press and Alphabet Soup Books are excited to announce that submissions are open for a poetry anthology for children, the companion to Right Way Down and Other Poems. The anthology, to be published in 2026, will be co-edited by Rebecca M. Newman and Dr Sally Murphy. Rebecca said, ‘We are ...

02/02/2025

Calling all WA poets! Fremantle Press and Alphabet Soup Books are excited to announce that submissions are open for a second poetry anthology for children, the companion to Right Way Down and Other Poems. The anthology, to be published in 2026, will be co-edited by Rebecca M Newman and Sally Murphy.

Submissions are open to Western Australian writers, 18 years and older. Writers may make one submission with up to 3 poems.

All submissions are to be made via the Fremantle Press Submittable portal. https://fremantlepress.com.au/submissions/

Submissions close 21 February 2025.

28/11/2024

Rebecca M. Newman on the inspiration for her poem 'Cricket' in Right Way Down and Other Poems, illustrated by Briony Stewart:
"Playing with poetic forms is fun - the build up to a ball being bowled felt perfect for a Fibonacci poem!"

26/11/2024

Sharron Hough on the writing of her poem 'Tick-Tock' in Right Way Down and Other Poems, illustrated by Briony Stewart:
"The inspiration for my poem came from my job working with cardiologists. They fix hearts every day and do everything to keep them ticking."

24/11/2024

Teena Raffa-Mulligan on the inspiration for her poem 'Peacock Patrol' in Right Way Down and Other Poems, illustrated by Briony Stewart:
"I was outside one of the lecture rooms at UWA watching a crow and a peacock while waiting for a writers' festival session to start and a poem began to form."

21/11/2024

Raewyn Caisley on the writing of her poem 'Whale Shark' in Right Way Down and Other Poems, illustrated by Briony Stewart:
" I like to know what I'm dealing with! (I had a whale of a time writing this.)"

19/11/2024

We asked Cindy Lane about the inspiration for her poem 'Come on In!' in Right Way Down and Other Poems, illustrated by Briony Stewart:

" I watched my friend go straight into the chilly water, diving and splashing like a fish. She was so joyous in the sea!"