The Arts

Profile: Jane Longhurst

19 Mar 2025

One of Jane Longhurst’s earliest memories is of sitting under the dining table at home in the inner Hobart suburb of Dynnyrne, listening to aunts and uncles telling stories about family folklore ...

People

Profile: Jo Eberhard

by Stefan Eberhard

21 Mar 2025

My mother was born on the December 5, 1943 in Vancouver, Canada ...

The Arts

Water Frames Winter

by Pen Tayler

04 Sep 2024

Video: A nostalgic journey in southern Tasmania

The Arts

Harvest Home

by Stephen McCarthy

04 Aug 2024

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I first visited TMAG in 2018 on a family holiday to Hobart, having previously found inspiration in a couple of mainland Australian paintings for formal poems in the style - or rather, one of the styles - of John Betjeman. As such, I...

The Arts

One degree Kelvin

by Sonia Strong

04 Aug 2024

At any given moment, something unique and marvellous is happening somewhere in Tasmania ...

The Arts

City of literary promise

by Emanda Percival

18 Nov 2023

Pop the champagne, Hobart is a UNESCO City of Literature ...

The Arts

Landscape-shaped thinking

by Jonno Blood

16 Sep 2023

Every second scene here is worthy of painting and prose, a collection of small events that gladden the heart ...

The Arts

Master carver

by Pen Tayler

12 Feb 2023

The overcoat hangs on a wooden coat hanger above a pair of workmen’s boots ...

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