Books and writing

Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2025 Winner: A Boy in a Box

01 May 2025

Atauro Island fishermen, heading home from Dili on the mainland, don’t usually leave the harbour at night, preferring to leave just before dawn when the eastern sky is turning pink and the sea is calm and glassy. But on this night Pedro and his...

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Wilkinson’s easier ways

by Rob Shaw

05 Apr 2025

Whisper it gently, but Bill Wilkinson may be mellowing.

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2023 Winner

by Kathryn Goldie

08 May 2023

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...

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Bang bang, you’re dead, Nowheresville, America

by Lyndon Riggall

03 Jan 2023

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