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SUBSCRIBATHON #11: Nigel Featherstone
Win one of three copies of Nigel Featherstone’s novel, I’m Ready Now, when you subscribe to Island. To coincide with the insightful interview with Nigel Featherstone in the latest issue of Island, we...
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Ginko in St Davids Park
Fullers Bookshop’s Café Poet in Residence Lyn Reeves It’s midway into my residency at Fullers Afterword Café, and a stunning Saturday in Spring that’s perfect for a ginko. For the last four weeks...
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PROGRAM – Emerging Writers Festival Hobart Roadshow
A three-day program of events celebrating the written word. Thursday 31 October to Saturday 2 November 2013 BOOK NOW The Emerging Writers’ Festival will be in Tasmania for three days of discussions,...
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Profile – Sam Twyford-Moore
To coincide with the Emerging Writers Festival‘s first trip to Tasmania, we decided it was a good time to start asking some nosey questions. So STM. Who are you (really) and how did you get here? I...
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Profile – author Jennifer Mills
To coincide with the Emerging Writers Festival’s first trip to Tasmania, we decided it was time to start asking some nosey questions Who are you (really) and how did you get here? I’m Jennifer...
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Profile – Editor of Stilts, Katia Pase
To coincide with the Emerging Writers Festival‘s first trip to Tasmania, we decided it was time to start asking some nosey questions… Who are you (really) and how did you get started? I’m Katia, I’m...
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SUBSCRIBATHON #12: The Dastardly Deeds of D’Arcy D’Oliveres
Win one of three copies of David Foster’s novel, Man of Letters (2013), when you subscribe to Island. To coincide with the masterly character profile of D’Arcy D’Oliveres, penned by James Ley, in the...
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TasPride Festival 2013
Another year of pride TasPride, 1-9 November 2013 It barely seems like enough time has passed since last year’s epic 20th Birthday of TasPride and all the associated celebrations, but here we are...
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Open House Hobart
Inaugural Open House Hobart Hobart has long been renowned for the charm of its historic buildings and streetscapes. For many locals, these buildings have always been part of the scenery as they go...
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Island launch party at Rosny Barn
Island 135 launch party at Rosny Barn, Saturday 14th December 2013 It’s nearing that time of year when Christmas decorations are all over town, the end-of-year celebrations have begun and the Summer...
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SUBSCRIBATHON #13: Heather Rose
Win a gift pack of three Heather Rose novels, or one of three copies of the first Angelica Banks novel (co-authored by Heather Rose and Danielle Wood), when you subscribe to Island. To coincide with...
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Digital Writers Conference
Emerging Writers’ Festival – Hobart Roadshow 2013 By the end of the Digital Writers Conference, part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival Hobart roadshow, I was utterly overwhelmed. I walked out...
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Slow Drop
Slow Drop by Domas and Gabriele Rukas These two talented beanbusters will be debuting their slow drip coffee at the Island 135 launch party, and will be featuring at the MONA markets, MOMA, in the...
View ArticleSummer issue Island 135
Launching our Summer 2014 edition, Island would like to present Island 135. The New Front Page? TIM DUNLOP on the politics of social media THE STRUGGLE FOR SOUTH AFRICA’S NATIONAL BROADCASTER The...
View ArticleNotes for Roberto Bolaño’s Last Evenings on Earth
Disturbed and consoled. In ‘Dentist’, the eponymous man says to his friend (our narrator): ‘There’s no such thing as an empty building; in every so-called empty building, someone is hiding, keeping...
View ArticleWRITE-ON Public Reading in Highgate Cemetery
WRITE ON PART 3 Public Reading: Highgate Cemetery What happened on that windswept day at the Highgate Cemetery – we found ourselves looking out across London from the vantage point of the North, a...
View ArticleBen and the Art of Raising Chickens
I’ve been reading a book called Zen and the Art of Raising Chickens for mostly two reasons. The first is that I was curious about the zeitgeisty approach of mindfulness as a way of managing stress...
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ROGER BALLEN
ASYLUM Born 1950, New York, NY, USA; lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa Roger Ballen explores worlds where nothing is black and white. For almost 50 years, his documentary photographs of...
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Win with SUBSCRIBATHON #14
One set of Black Inc’s Best Australian 2013 collection, including the best of Short Stories, Essays and Poems, are up for grabs in our first SUBSCRIBATHON of 2014. How can you win this excellent set...
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A booky SUBSCRIBATHON #15
Thanks to Scribe Publications we are pleased to present… Island’s SUBSCRIBATHON #15 – in which we are offering subscribers, big and small, the chance to win one of three copies of The New Front...
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