Children’s or young adult book writers and illustrators, come along and meet other creators and share your book news. Buy…
Vaishnavi Chetlapalli is a first class, senior kuchipudi dancer who studied at Telugu University in India, and a dancer of…
Joshua Santospirito (he/him) has been making comics since he was a kid. He has won awards for his two graphic…
Jane Naqvi lives in Tasmania between the bush & the sea. She has been a teacher and educator. She has…
Alyssa Bermudez is a born and bred New Yorker living down under in Tasmania, Australia! She studied illustration and animation…
Join Joshua Santospirito, Alyssa Bermudez and Jane Naqvi as they discuss what it’s like both to create graphic novels, and work…
This is a free event, with a Mystery MC, to launch Parting the Veil by Bethany Nader. A paranormal Murder-Mystery…
Sarah Walker is a writer, artist and photographer. She makes work about anxiety, control and intimacy in text, video and…
Briony Kidd is a Tasmanian film and theatre maker, critic and commentator and teaches screenwriting at the University of Tasmania.…
There was a wild and secret place at the bottom of Miss Heatherbell’s garden. It had been forgotten for years…
Participants in the Emerging Tasmanian Aboriginal Writers Award (ETAWA) and Hidden Stories workshops, discuss their shared experiences of these projects…
Our Golden and Silver Tickets are Hobart Writers Festival 2021 Passes and early-bird tickets, allowing access to events over the…
Fritz Stegherr was born in Germany in 1888, to a single mother, raised in the Algäu, always wanted to go…
Two full days of free children’s events will take place throughout the Festival. The schedule is below. Where? Parliament Gardens…
Since the publication of Nan Chauncy’s They Found a Cave in 1947, the flora and fauna of Tasmania and its…
Join Geoff Harwood, Katherine Johnson and Pete Hay for a fascinating discussion of ‘history, nature and hermits’, themed around the…
Join historians Prof. Henry Reynolds and Dr Nicholas Clements in conversation with commemoration advocates Rissah Vox and Wendall Graham Pitchford…
Annalise Rees is curator at the Maritime Museum of Tasmania. She is also an artist and educator with expertise in…
Laurie Gilbert. Septuagenarian. Rock Star. Writer. Laurie played bass guitar, married a bass guitarist and ran the Gold Coast Musicians’…
Lian Tanner has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles…
Rosie Dub is the author of two novels, Flight (Harper Collins) and Gathering Storm (Penguin), which is being adapted for…
Heather Rose is the author of eight novels including Bruny, which won the 2020 ABIA Fiction Book of The Year. Heather’s seventh…
From Homer’s Odyssey, through Boccaccio’s Decameron, to Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains, adversity has provided a loyal companion…
Grace Williams is the Founder and Director of Citizen Tasmania, a human rights and arts organisation dedicated to providing individuals…
Join Karen Brooks, author of The Good Wife of Bath: a (mostly) true story, and Danielle Wood, for what is…
Join two innovative writers, publishers and communicators, Grace Williams and Mark Macleod for an inspiring conversation about diversity in publishing.…
Over 2021 the Maritime Museum of Tasmania has been hosting Tasmanian writers, Kate Gordon and Danielle Wood as part of…
Do you believe in dragons? What about dragons that don’t breath fire or fly, but which are the most beautiful…
Representatives from a printing company (Franklin Direct, in Moonah) and a traditional publisher (FiveMile) will come together to discuss the…
Maritime Museum of Tasmania curator, Annalise Rees, will be leading a panel discussion around hosting creative practitioners within institutional settings.…