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The Tasmanian Poetry Festival is held annually. Devoted almost solely to poetry, in all its forms and across all genres, and age ranges, it is held in Launceston with guest poets sharing their work with local readers and audiences.
Encouraging, supporting and promoting Tasmanian writers and stories.
The Advocate Newspaper services one of the richest and most diversified regions in the nation with a market of 106,000 people. The Advocate regularly reaches over 60,000 people over the age of 14 years on the North West and West Coast. The Advocate has served this region since 1890.
Arts Tasmania is responsible for policy, planning, strategic development and funding of the arts in Tasmania. Arts Tasmania also has an industry development arm, arts@work, whose brief is to increase the capacity of the arts sector and the viability of a career in the arts. Funding opportunities exist for Tasmanian writers or activities that will benefit Tasmania.
Sub-paper of the Launceston Examiner, based in St Helens. Local news and advertising.
The Examiner is Australia’s third-oldest surviving daily newspaper. It is located in Launceston and was first published in 1842.It publishes seven days a week on local national and international news.
The Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize is open to anyone. Entries must be previously unpublished poems only. Poem or linked series, 100 lines maximum. Visit website to enter.
An online publishing space for short works by emerging writers and work by emerging visual artists. An initiative of Island magazine.
Local interests and news.
Tasmanian daily, based in Hobart. Local, national and international news, features, sport, entertainment.
Weekly newspaper. Topics of interest: any issue relevant to circulation area.
A mix of the traditional and the new provides readers of the Sunday Tasmanian with coverage of local, national and international news. Tasmania’s biggest selling Sunday newspaper, with a reach into Hobart and Southern Tasmania of 67% every Sunday.
Beaconsfield, Tasmania became the epicentre of a unique community and cultural experience when the inaugural Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words became Tasmania’s biggest writers festival. The Tamar Valley Writers Festival is a biennial writers festival in Tasmania.
The Tasmanian Writers & Readers Festival, run biennially by the Tasmanian Writers Centre, unites writers and readers from across the state and Australia through masterclasses, discussion forums, spoken word events, children’s programs and more. The festival occupies various spaces throughout the historic Hadley’s Orient Hotel and encourages all members of the community to engage with their fellow readers and writers through the power of storytelling.
Terrapin is the Australian innovator of puppetry-based visual theatre embracing new technologies, creating contemporary storytelling, and touring and collaborating nationally and internationally. The company is exploring digital puppetry, which uses new technologies and cross platform practice to continually challenge and redefine puppetry as a visual theatre form.