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 Tasmanian gothic debut novel weaving historical fiction with selkie folklore. It's 1923, and Isla Findlay lives with her parents in a rambling mansion on a wild stretch of the Tasmanian coast — a house steeped in family secrets, tragedy and rumours of madness. When Isla's estranged aunt finally returns home, long-buried childhood memories of selkie stories begin to surface, along with disturbing dreams of seals and a haunting song Isla starts to hear even while awake.
In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight.
A children's novel of the Tasmanian bush, a hungry Tasmanian Devil named Dibley a boy named Tom and a mythical Lost Cave. Aimed for younger readers in their early teens.
The Lost Love Song is a bewitching novel about love, second chances and the power of music, from the author of the critically acclaimed, bestselling Star-crossed.
![Daughters of the Tide | Arianne James | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/daughters-of-the-tide-4TYKh8.png "Daughters of the Tide | Arianne James | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
![Find Me | Holly Craig | 2026 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/find-me-D13Kaw.png "Find Me | Holly Craig | 2026 [NEW – SC]")
