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Children’s Book Creators’ Networking Event

September 30, 2021 TasWriters

Children’s or young adult book writers and illustrators, come along and meet other creators and share your book news. Buy…

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Posted in: Children, For Writers, Graphic Novels and Illustrators, Kids

Vaishnavi Chetlapalli

September 22, 2021 TasWriters

Vaishnavi Chetlapalli is a first class, senior kuchipudi dancer who studied at Telugu University in India, and a dancer of…

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Joshua Santospirito

September 21, 2021 TasWriters

Joshua Santospirito (he/him) has been making comics since he was a kid. He has won awards for his two graphic…

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Jane Naqvi

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Jane Naqvi lives in Tasmania between the bush & the sea. She has been a teacher and educator. She has…

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Alyssa Bermudez

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Alyssa Bermudez is a born and bred New Yorker living down under in Tasmania, Australia! She studied illustration and animation…

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A Picture Saves a Thousand Words

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Join Joshua Santospirito, Alyssa Bermudez and Jane Naqvi as they discuss what it’s like both to create graphic novels, and work…

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Posted in: For Readers, For Writers, Graphic Novels and Illustrators, Kids, Young Adults

Parting the Veil by Bethamy Nader – Book launch

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This is a free event, with a Mystery MC, to launch Parting the Veil by Bethany Nader. A paranormal Murder-Mystery…

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Sarah Walker

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Sarah Walker is a writer, artist and photographer. She makes work about anxiety, control and intimacy in text, video and…

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Briony Kidd

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Briony Kidd is a Tasmanian film and theatre maker, critic and commentator and teaches screenwriting at the University of Tasmania.…

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Carol Ann Martin reads from ‘Wodge and Friends: The Mystery in the Garden’

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There was a wild and secret place at the bottom of Miss Heatherbell’s garden. It had been forgotten for years…

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Emerging Tasmanian Aboriginal Writers Award

September 9, 2021 TasWriters

Participants in the Emerging Tasmanian Aboriginal Writers Award (ETAWA) and Hidden Stories workshops, discuss their shared experiences of these projects…

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Posted in: For Writers, History and Culture, Poetry, Young Adults

Hobart Writers Festival 2021 Golden and Silver Tickets

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Our Golden and Silver Tickets are Hobart Writers Festival 2021 Passes and early-bird tickets, allowing access to events over the…

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Dear Mama, The diary of a German POW, 1914-1915 – Book Launch

September 7, 2021 TasWriters

Fritz Stegherr was born in Germany in 1888, to a single mother, raised in the Algäu, always wanted to go…

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Posted in: For Readers, History and Society

Free Children’s Events

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Two full days of free children’s events will take place throughout the Festival. The schedule is below. Where? Parliament Gardens…

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Posted in: Kids, Young Adults

Island of Curiosities – Environmental Children’s Literature in Tasmania

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Since the publication of Nan Chauncy’s They Found a Cave in 1947, the flora and fauna of Tasmania and its…

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Posted in: For Writers, Graphic Novels and Illustrators, Kids, Presenters, Young Adults

History, Nature and Hermits: Geoff Harwood, Katherine Johnson and Pete Hay on the West Coast’s ‘last hermit’

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Join Geoff Harwood, Katherine Johnson and Pete Hay for a fascinating discussion of ‘history, nature and hermits’, themed around the…

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Posted in: For Readers, History and Society, Presenters, Science and Nature

Tongerlongeter: Henry Reynolds, Nick Clements, Rissah Vox and Wendall Graham Pitchford in conversation

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Join historians Prof. Henry Reynolds and Dr Nicholas Clements in conversation with commemoration advocates Rissah Vox and Wendall Graham Pitchford…

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Annalise Rees

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Annalise Rees is curator at the Maritime Museum of Tasmania. She is also an artist and educator with expertise in…

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Music in Literature

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Laurie Gilbert. Septuagenarian. Rock Star. Writer. Laurie played bass guitar, married a bass guitarist and ran the Gold Coast Musicians’…

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Lian Tanner

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Lian Tanner has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles…

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Rosie Dub

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Rosie Dub is the author of two novels, Flight (Harper Collins) and Gathering Storm (Penguin), which is being adapted for…

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Heather Rose

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Heather Rose is the author of eight novels including Bruny, which won the 2020 ABIA Fiction Book of The Year. Heather’s seventh…

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Writing Out Adversity: bushfires, tree-pulling and the pandemic

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From Homer’s Odyssey, through Boccaccio’s Decameron, to Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains, adversity has provided a loyal companion…

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Grace Williams: Arts of social change and transformation

September 1, 2021 TasWriters

Grace Williams is the Founder and Director of Citizen Tasmania, a human rights and arts organisation dedicated to providing individuals…

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Karen Brooks and Danielle Wood in Conversation

August 29, 2021 TasWriters

Join Karen Brooks, author of The Good Wife of Bath: a (mostly) true story, and Danielle Wood, for what is…

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Diversity in Publishing

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Join two innovative writers, publishers and communicators, Grace Williams and Mark Macleod for an inspiring conversation about diversity in publishing.…

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LUME with Danielle Wood and Kate Gordon

August 26, 2021 TasWriters

Over 2021 the Maritime Museum of Tasmania has been hosting Tasmanian writers, Kate Gordon and Danielle Wood as part of…

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The Weedy Seadragon – Anne Morgan

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Do you believe in dragons? What about dragons that don’t breath fire or fly, but which are the most beautiful…

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Making the Book – FiveMile and Franklin Direct: getting a book to market

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Representatives from a printing company (Franklin Direct, in Moonah) and a traditional publisher (FiveMile) will come together to discuss the…

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Writing Residencies – Kate Gordon, Danielle Wood, Jeanette Thompson and Annalise Rees

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Maritime Museum of Tasmania curator, Annalise Rees, will be leading a panel discussion around hosting creative practitioners within institutional settings.…

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