Children’s or young adult book writers and illustrators, come along and meet other creators and share your book news. Buy…
Join Joshua Santospirito, Alyssa Bermudez and Jane Naqvi as they discuss what it’s like both to create graphic novels, and work…
Participants in the Emerging Tasmanian Aboriginal Writers Award (ETAWA) and Hidden Stories workshops, discuss their shared experiences of these projects…
Since the publication of Nan Chauncy’s They Found a Cave in 1947, the flora and fauna of Tasmania and its…
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 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…
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.…
Launching the Forty South Short Story Anthology 2021 (the best entries from the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2021). Chris Gallagher, judge…
Heather Rose (The River Wife, White Heart), Rosie Dub (Gathering Storm, Flight) and Shirley Patton (The Secrets We Keep) discuss…
Join three popular writers, Danielle Binks (The Monster of Her Age – featured on RN’s program, The Drawing Room)*, Lian…
Deborah Thomson, Sarah Walker* and Grace Williams are strong and compelling advocates for social justice and humanitarian issues, including the…
Ursula Dubosarsky* is the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020-2021. Considered one of Australia’s most talented and original writers, she is…
Often when writing remote places, the location itself functions as a character. The writer must be as aware of its…
A panel discussion and readings, from the best of the 2021 Van Diemen History Prize, moderated by UTas Associate Professor…
A panel on the use of facts in fiction writing and the ethical dilemmas posed by a hybrid genre such as creative non-fiction.
Arianne recently chatted with author of ‘The Last Apple Blossom’, Mary-Lou Stephens, and publisher Nicola Robinson, about the writing and…
Our moment is on edge, with multiple pressures impacting globally not just on ourselves but on our home… How can writers give to, and feed on, a moment that has helped to cause such damage? In this session, poems will be read, processes and hopes will be discussed, and the experience of writing amid the Anthropocene will be shared.
Since May this year, 23 Tasmanian poets have been working with one specific idea, that poetry can contribute to a deeper cultural valuing of the world we are part of. With readings by several of the 23 poets involved, this event is for remembering where we are, where we have come from, and what we might wish to take with us into the future.