Books and writing Mountain Stories by Rob Shaw 02 Apr 2025 Spend any time in Tasmania’s remote high country and there is a tendency to wonder whether you might be among the first people to step foot there ...
Books and writing The call of the water by Karen Harrland 21 Dec 2024 My swim is often taken while my heart is pumping hard after a run or a kayak ...
Forty South Question 7, by Richard Flanagan: A love note from Tasmania’s greatest nature writer by Don Defenderfer 14 Jan 2024 I was asked recently who I thought was the greatest nature writer in Tasmania ...
The Arts City of literary promise by Emanda Percival 18 Nov 2023 Pop the champagne, Hobart is a UNESCO City of Literature ...
Books and writing Once Upon an Arthur River by Mallika Naguran 29 Jan 2023 He fell by the knife, they told me. They wouldn’t let me see. Too frightful, they said. Too bloody, mate. Blood has never stopped me from skinning rabbits, though. They come out just when the currawongs seek out those hills behind those giant...
Books and writing Igloo Ripples by Guy Green 27 Nov 2022 Early in 1996 I was walking on the isthmus at the northern end of Macquarie Island, enveloped in the othwerwordly atmosphere of that extraordinary sub-Antarctic outpost of Tasmania.
Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2022 Hysteria by Kirra Watkins 31 Oct 2022 [The following is correspondence between Miss Lucie Shepherd and Sister Rose of the Order of Charity, collected for The Women’s Museum of Australia’s exhibition Hysteria Over The Centuries.]
Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2022 His Precise Ways by Emma Paine 31 Oct 2022 Highly Commended -- Senior Section Elizabeth College
Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2022 A Lonely Soul by Joni Uytendaal 31 Oct 2022 Winner - Senior section Clarence High School
Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2022 White Noise by Estelle Tomkinson 31 Oct 2022 Second Runner-Up - Senior section St Patrick’s College “Do you ever feel trapped?” Leah asked Trudy as she washed out the dye from Leah’s hair. The salon had emptied and Leah and Trudy were the last people in the dull lit room. The sun was...
Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2022 Ernie by Ashley Lawler 31 Oct 2022 Highly Commended -- Senior Section Elizabeth College