Books, screen, art and environment of lutruwita-Tasmania
The Tasmanian Poetry Festival is on again – a smorgasbord of great local, national and international poets and poetry over the entire weekend – 30th September – 1st October 2022, in Launceston. Along with pre-Festival workshops, the classic Launceston Poetry Cup and several themed sessions with plenty of readings, a highlight will be the announcement …
Give Tassie books this Christmas and holidays is a TasWriters initiative supported by Bright South (Bright South’s Daniela Brozek is also a member of the Board of Management of TasWriters). The flyer aims to help Tasmanian writers and those who might love their books find one-another, and increase awareness of Tasmania’s diverse stories and writing. …
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The Hobart Writers Festival will be on next weekend – 9th and 10th of October 2021. It has been keeping me very busy over the last few weeks, mostly on things like the website, ticketing and other marketing collateral, but what I’m happiest about is having facilitated several sessions that will bring some amazing writers, …
Bright South has been supporting the Tasmanian Poetry Festival a little lately, including hosting their programme. Check it out, and more – get thee there! Read more… (click the heading to do so, and to activate links to the programme and TPF website)
It’s been a little while since I posted anything, but that’s because I’ve been busy! Here’s a little update on a few exciting things that have been happening recently though – The Diver is going to Venice! Reviewing – Sean Rabin’s Wood Green, and TasWriters’ Hobart Writers Festival… The Diver is going to Venice! Firstly …
Friends of North Bruny represents the community on North Bruny Island, lutruwita-Tasmania (everything north of the Neck). During 2018 Bright South helped them with a new website. Find out more . . .
Anne Morgan is an amazing poet! She’s also a super active member of lutruwita-Tasmania’s writing community, coordinating the Facebook page ‘Celebrate Tasmanian Books and Writing’, and you can often catch her reading her work about the state. If you get the chance to hear her, go! Anne also knows just the way to catch the …
Pete Hay and Paul Gerard are kicking off an exciting collaborative tour on the 3rd of August at the Peacock Theatre. An Evening in Andalusia celebrates the great Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca. Lorca was executed in 1936 in the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War. His poetry was banned for 20 years after his …
Of one of lutruwita-Tasmania’s greatest poets, of Pete Hay, Rachel Edwards wrote: “no one else takes the temperature of this island like Hay, and no one else uses Tasmania as such an effective prism through which to consider human nature” (The Australian). Not only is Pete a poet though, he is also a respected scholar and activist. Find out more . . .