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Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2023
Closer Creeps the Dark, Senior Winner
An arthritic finger flicks a switch, and a lone lightbulb flickers on, humming a pale orange glow in the living room of Sasha Sahnov’s farmhouse. Sasha has refused to leave. He has lived here his whole life; he was born here, his father born here...