Finalist stories from Forty South's Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2026, an annual short story competition open to writers in Australia and New Zealand on an island, or island-resonant, theme.
Finalist stories from Forty South's Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2026, an annual short story competition open to writers in Australia and New Zealand on an island, or island-resonant, theme.
Richard Flanagan's 2017 novel — his first after The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. A young writer is hired to ghost-write the memoirs of a charismatic and morally bankrupt con man in a matter of weeks. As the narrator is pulled deeper into his subject's world, the boundaries between the two men and between truth and fiction begin to dissolve.
Finalist stories from Forty South's Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2026, an annual short story competition open to writers in Australia and New Zealand on an island, or island-resonant, theme.
A Bush Wedding is a compilation of poetry from Peter Shoobridge, known for a while as "Tassie's TV poet".
This epic and sweeping 200-year saga of an ancient island and its violent transformation from Eden-like paradise to the tourist destination that Tasmania is today, is told through the lives of four families.
There are eighteen stories in A Gossip of Derwent Narratives. Many of the people in these stories endure extraordinary pain and tragedy yet surprisingly invite humour to be part of their experience. It is clear that within the agony and delight of each gossipy narrative Andrew has come to know and travel life’s journey with many weird, funny and colourful characters – people just like you and me.
These poems convey Graeme Hetherington's response to his awareness of Tasmania's convict past as it continued to make itself deeply felt during the 40s and 50s of the last century, nowhere more so than on the island's West Coast.