Books & writing
Books & writing

Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2024 Winner: Drive On

by Nakita Kitson
29 Apr 2024
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 & writing

Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2023 Winner

by Kathryn Goldie
08 May 2023
Books & 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 & writing

Bang bang, you’re dead, Nowheresville, America

by Lyndon Riggall
03 Jan 2023
Books & 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

Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2022

Flower Through Concrete

by Cody
31 Oct 2022

Winner -- Junior Section Latrobe High School

Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2022

Enchantment

by Rufus Murphy
31 Oct 2022

Runner Up -- Primary Section Taroona High Scool

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