Another Country
Another Country – exhibition Island 136 features artworks by photographer Matthew Newton, from his upcoming exhibition Another Country. Inspired by historical accounts and contemporary political...
View ArticleSUBSCRIBATHON #18 Barracuda
WIN a copy of the recently published Barracuda by superb Australian author Christos Tsiolkas, author of The Slap, Dead Europe and Loaded. What to do? Just be an Island subscriber. Simple. On...
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SUBSCRIBATHON #19
When Hardie Grant Books decided to publish a new edition of the Cole’s Funny Picture Book, Island Art Director Michael Brady jumped at the chance to work on this updated version of his favourite...
View ArticleDancing on the Dead
I’ve struggled to establish my credentials as a dropout. In London I made a first rate error. Starting out in West London (10 years ago) I worked the fashionable joints in that human wasteland, the...
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The Monsters of Tasmania
The book is about to arrive, but the Monsters of Tasmania have been here for a very long time. I noticed them straight away when I arrived: Mt Wellington, that muscular sphinx crouched behind a...
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Prejudicial Ink
A review of Fluid Prejudice Various artists, edited by Sam Wallman Published by Glass Flag 2014 Cover image Tom O’Hern featured in Island 135 I don’t know if anyone recalls an incredible serialised...
View ArticleAn open letter on the future of Arts funding
If you would like to add your signature to this letter, please visit the first letter published by Meanjin HERE. Dear Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Treasurer Joe Hockey and Minister for Arts George...
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Our New Poetry Editor: Sarah Holland-Batt
Island is very happy to be able to announce that Sarah Holland-Batt is joining the editorial team as Island’s Poetry Editor. Sarah is a Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Queensland...
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ISLAND 137 Launch in Brisbane
with Special Guests Will be celebrating Australia’s literary culture Oh and helping to launch Island 137 at Where: Avid Reader Bookshop , 193 Boundary St, West End, Brisbane, Queensland 4101 (AU)....
View ArticleTallest You’ll Ever Be
A selection of works by Liam James Humans are obsessed with the idea of personal transformation. We revel in the triumph of its success, and bathe indulgently in its failure. The blind, insatiable...
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My Story in Pictures and Words
A competition for Tasmanian kids, supported by Betta Milk and the TSO My Story in Pictures and Words is an opportunity for Tasmanian kids aged five to twelve to create an autobiographical picture book,...
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Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival
Organising a festival is completely insane. I doubt people realise. The process of making it happen probably ought to remain invisible to the outside world anyway, so perhaps that could be for...
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Somehow I co-won the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers and I feel so...
When the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers competition was announced I remember thinking: YES. I was excited about the prize because I was excited about nonfiction, and excited about young...
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Island Magazine. Because one good deed…
In the latest Island magazine, Damon Young wrote about what he thinks would have happened if baby Superman had landed in Outback Australia. We know one thing for sure, at tax time he would have donated...
View ArticleWallfisch & Wallfisch
CLASSICAL MUSIC ROYALTY COMES TO TASMANIA…with husband and wife team, Raphael and Elizabeth Wallfisch Wallfisch & Wallfisch might sound like a law firm, but in fact it is the name of an upcoming...
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Explicitly Archer?
A handful of newsagents have refused to stock Archer in their stores. An independent journal founded to explore Australia’s current attitudes to sexual diversity, the first print edition launched in...
View ArticleLaunching Journalism Ethics for the Digital Age
In our current issue Island 137, Matthew Lamb’s interview with Denis Muller talks about newsworthiness, ethical consensus and the importance of reading responsibly. Denis Muller was a journalist for...
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A Week at Varuna
I do not ever particularly think of myself as male or female, and therefore had never considered my writing in this light. It was surprising then, that one of the most powerful and persistent...
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Transportation & Panama Red
Sometime in 2013, when the sun attempted to shine in London and the dark sought to overcome Tasmania, a spark of an idea began to glow. A lone Tasmanian writer in the ancient city of London and a...
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Giving Voice: the Art of Dissent
Salamanca Arts Centre (SAC) is proud to present the group show Giving Voice: the Art of Dissent, featuring eight artists that document their opinions on the pressing social and political issues...
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