Kyle PerryPhoto credit: Penguin Random House About Kyle Perry Kyle Perry is a drug and alcohol counsellor based in Hobart, Tasmania. He has grown up around the Tasmanian bush and seas, with the landscape a key feature of his writing and his spare time. He loves the sea, and his entire leg is covered in … Continue reading #TasmanianLitMonth – The Bluffs by Kyle Perry
#TasmanianLitMonth: Featured Writer – Lyndon Riggall
Written by guest contributor Lyndon Riggall, introduction by Bec Taylor Lyndon Riggall is a northern Tasmanian writer and English teacher at Launceston College and co-host, with Annie Warburton, of the Tamar Valley Writers’ Festival Podcast. Tasmania being Tasmania, and six degrees of separation being more like two, it turns out Lyndon was both a student … Continue reading #TasmanianLitMonth: Featured Writer – Lyndon Riggall
#TasmanianLitMonth: A Child’s Book of True Crime, by Chloe Hooper
Photo and bio courtesy of Penguin Random House About Chloe Hooper Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the John Button Prize for Political Writing, and a Ned Kelly Award for crime writing. She is also … Continue reading #TasmanianLitMonth: A Child’s Book of True Crime, by Chloe Hooper
#TasmanianLitMonth: The Trail of the Tin Dragon
The Trail of the Tin Dragon - a walking trail of Chinese immigration history Written by guest contributors, Jim Fidler and Michelle Shaw, with introduction and conclusion by Bec Taylor Zane Pinner's reference to Chinese ghost stories in his introduction to Tasmanian Gothic literature at the start of this month sparked a great interest in … Continue reading #TasmanianLitMonth: The Trail of the Tin Dragon
#TasmanianLitMonth: Zane Pinner on Tasmanian Gothic
Written by guest contributor, Zane Pinner, introduction by Bec Taylor I would like to pay my respects to the traditional custodians of the land, the Palawa people of Tasmania, and to their Elders, past, present, and emerging. I acknowledge their deep spiritual connection to the land and their ongoing contributions to the culture of this … Continue reading #TasmanianLitMonth: Zane Pinner on Tasmanian Gothic
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