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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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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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Island of Curiosities – Environmental Children’s Literature in Tasmania

September 7, 2021 TasWriters

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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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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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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The Weedy Seadragon – Anne Morgan

August 26, 2021 TasWriters

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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Short Story – writing on an island theme

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Launching the Forty South Short Story Anthology 2021 (the best entries from the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2021). Chris Gallagher, judge…

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Robbie Arnott and Amanda Lohrey in conversation

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What can we say? Don’t miss this. Two of Tasmania’s most exciting writers in one room. Fire and water… we’re…

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Ursula Dubosarsky – Children’s Laureate

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Ursula Dubosarsky* is the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2020-2021. Considered one of Australia’s most talented and original writers, she is…

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Danielle Binks in conversation with Briony Kidd

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Join Danielle Binks*, author of The Monster of Her Age, in conversation with Briony Kidd. Danielle is a Melbourne-based writer.…

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Ruhi Lee – Q&A and Interview with Mark Macleod

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Ruhi Lee* is the author of her own memoir, Good Indian Daughter: Growing up, she knew she was never going…

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Mark Macleod

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Mark Macleod is the author of picture books for children, as well as poems for children and adults. President and…

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Danielle Wood

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Danielle Wood is a versatile wordsmith who writes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Under her own name she…

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Terry Whitebeach

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Dr Terry Whitebeach is a Tasmanian writer and oral historian. Her published work includes poetry, young adult novels, biographies, bilingual…

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Kate Gordon

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Kate Gordon grew up in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. She is the author of six novels…

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Karen Brooks

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Karen Brooks is an Australian author, columnist, social commentator and academic. Brooks was born Sydney, New South Wales, and now…

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Katherine Johnson

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Katherine Johnson is a Tasmanian novelist and science writer. Her novels include Pescador’s Wake, The Better Son, Matryoshka and Paris…

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Deborah Thomson

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I live in North West Tasmania. I have written two memoirs (Whose Life Is It Anyway? Recognising and Surviving Domestic…

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