Recent News Blogs
Thursday, 16/05/2013
Members, you are invited to an evening of conversation and drinks with visiting US author Robin Hemley, the Director of the Non-Fiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, one of the world’s most prestigious writing programs. In...
Thursday, 16/05/2013
Interested in applying for an Asialink’s 2014 arts residency? Join Asialink in Hobart TODAY, MAY 16 for an introduction to the program and a Q&A. Tasmanian artist Bec Stevens will provide a short overview of her 2012...
Tuesday, 07/05/2013
Congratulations to all those on the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist. They are: Michelle de Kretser (Questions of Travel), Carrie Tiffany, (Mateship with Birds), Annah...
Tuesday, 23/04/2013
Congratulations to Tim Thorne on being awarded the 2012 Christopher Brennan Award by the Victorian Fellowship of Authors. This award is given annually to an Australian poet ‘who has written work of sustained quality and distinction...
Thursday, 18/04/2013
Carrie Tiffany is the first-ever winner of the Stella Prize for her novel Mateship with Birds. The winner of the Stella Prize, the major new award for Australian women’s writing, receives $50,000 in prize money....
Tuesday, 09/04/2013
Congratulations to Tasmanians, author Julie Hunt and illustrator Ron Brooks, on the shortlisting of their new picture book, The Coat, for the Children's Book Council of Australia's prestigous Picture Book Award.
The...
Monday, 08/04/2013
A big congrats to all those authors who are in our Away With Words broadsheet for 2013. There are more than 80 artists on the poster this year. The TWC director, Chris Gallagher, launched the broadsheet during the Tasmanian Writers Festival 2013...
Thursday, 28/03/2013
The winners of the 2013 Wildcare Tasmania International Nature Writing Prize were announced on March 23 at The Lark as part of the Tasmanian Writers’ Festival.
The overall winner is:
Tanya Massy of Brunswick West, Victoria,...
Monday, 18/02/2013
It was fantastic to see Tasmanian authors recognised for outstanding work at the literary prizes on March 22. A big congrats to James Boyce, who won the Tasmania Book Prize for the best book with Tasmanian content in any...
Thursday, 17/01/2013
Arts Tasmania and the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board express sympathy for the plight of victims caught in the horrific bushfires that have caused devastation around the state.
For artists and arts organisations on the Tasman Peninsula, in...
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