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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
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Meet the Writers

September 10, 2019 TasWriters

TasWriters and Hadley’s Orient Hotel invite you to a networking event for writers, readers, storytellers and publishers.

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Posted in: 2019 News, Art of Writing, History and Culture, Wellness and Environment Filed under: networking
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Festival Closing Event

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Please join us to bring a very special end to the Hobart Writers Festival 2019, at a very special location…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture
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Hobart Writers Festival Opening

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Please join us for the official Opening of the Hobart Writers Festival 2019!

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: Adam Thompson, hidden stories, Kartanya Maynard
Women of the Island

Women of the Island

September 8, 2019 TasWriters

Join filmwriters and directors Takani Clark and Ninna Millikin for a Q & A session and the screening of two short films about inspiring Aboriginal women, made by Ninna and Takani as part of the Women of the Island project

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture, Wellness and Environment Filed under: Aboriginal, art, film, Ninna Millikin, Takani Clark
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Setting a Place

September 5, 2019 TasWriters

Join Matthew and L.J. in a conversation on the place of food in creating a setting for fiction, for family, for relationships and the continuity of the Tasmanian food landscape since the introduction of European farming practices.

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture, Wellness and Environment Filed under: crime, Dr L.J.M. Owen, food, Matthew Evans
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Short Story Writing on an Island Theme

August 31, 2019 TasWriters

The Forty South Tasmanian Writers’ Prize asks entrants to write a short story on ‘an island or island-resonant theme’. A…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture, Wellness and Environment Filed under: Anna Murchison, Forty South, Greg Burgess, Jane Naqvi, Katherine Johnson, landscape, Lynley Joyce
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The Pakana Voice

August 24, 2019 TasWriters

Tales of a War Correspondent 1814 -1856 The Pakana Voice, a new book by Ian Broinowski, written with cultural advice…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: Aboriginal, Henry Reynolds, history, Ian Broinowski, Jim Everett, pakana, palawa, puralia meenamatta, settlers, Van Diemen's Land
Young and Quibell books

Sympathy in Writing

August 23, 2019 TasWriters

Damon Young is an award-winning philosopher, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Art of…

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Posted in: 2019 News, Art of Writing, History and Culture, Wellness and Environment Filed under: Damon Young, philosophy, Ruth Quibell, things
Erfan Daliri

Raising Humanity

August 22, 2019 TasWriters

In this not to be missed session you can expect more than your regular ‘in conversation’! Erfan Daliri and Ruth…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture, Wellness and Environment Filed under: Erfan Daliri, humanitarianism, justice, performance, Ruth Langford, women
The Broad Arrow

The Broad Arrow

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Women’s lives in Van Diemen’s Land Award winning writer Amanda Lohrey talks to Jenna Mead about The Broad Arrow; Being…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: Amanda Lohrey, convicts, history, Jenna Mead, settlers, Van Diemen's Land, women, writers
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Rohan Wilson in conversation with Heather Rose

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Two of our most interesting writers, Rohan Wilson and Heather Rose in conversation. Rohan’s first book, The Roving Party, won…

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Posted in: 2019 News, Art of Writing, History and Culture, Wellness and Environment Filed under: dystopian, environment, Heather Rose, Rohan Wilson
Rowan Gillespie's Footsteps Towards Freedom

History Writing: The Van Diemen History prize

August 21, 2019 TasWriters

Good writing about history can be engaging, insightful, poignant or intriguing, but the underlying research will always be authentic and…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: Forty South, history, Imogen Wegman, Kirstyn Harman, Nick Brodie, Paige Gleeson, Terry Mulhern, Tony Fenton, Van Diemen History Prize, Van Diemen's Land, writers
Margaretta Pos's books

The Unknown Valley

July 20, 2019 TasWriters

The white female response to the local landscape: Elizabeth Fenton in the 1830s and her great-great-granddaughter Ann Page in the…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: history, Journals, Margaretta Pos, settlers, Van Diemen's Land, women
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