The Dorothy Hewett Award is open to all writers who have completed a manuscript and are seeking publication. The work must be fiction, narrative nonfiction or poetry, inclusive of hybrid genres such a...

A poet and environmental activist experiences a fever dream of Tasmania’s landscape and mining history in Adam Ouston’s brilliantly imagined novel

Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately

She hated hiking as a child – and had no idea what she was doing once she started climbing – but Becca Lunnon just made history on Tasmania’s mountains.

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is pleased to announce the list of finalists for the 2026 Tasmanian Media Awards, celebrating excellence in journalism across the state. Entries soared this ye...

I’m told humans can only genuinely experience a natural environment by staying still for at least 10 minutes. Only then do birds and other animals begin to emerge from their cautious retreat. There’s ...

This poem explores the experience of walking among the oyster bursting from the tidal flats around Cygnet. Ben Walter is a Tasmanian writer, and the author of the recent poetry collection Lithosphere...

Readings, Music and More for Robert Skinner Help Robert get his razzle-dazzle back after his bike accident! With readings from Andy...

Submissions open at 10am AEST Monday, 20th October 2025. Entries submitted before this date will not be considered. Submissions close at midnight AEST Monday, 31st  January 2026. Entries submitted aft...

Stories Matter strategy responds to urgent pressures such as declining reading rates and growing impact of digital media on publishing, minister says

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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If we want creative parents who are not primary caregivers to be spending active time attending to and parenting their children, we need to find ways to pay them appropriately for their work.

And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?

Exclusive: Critics want Melbourne University Publishing to transfer ownership of Meanjin rather than dissolve it. But CEO says ‘the journal is not for sale’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The former Labor attorney general and foreign affairs minister, Gareth Evans, has sent a scathing email to the chief executive of Melbourne University Publishing, lambasting its decision to scrap the literary journal Meanjin as “bone-headed”. Several hundred protesters gathered outside MUP’s Swanston Street headquarters in Melbourne on Thursday protesting against the imminent closure of one of the cornerstones of Australian literary culture for 85 years. Continue reading...

His illness will get worse, my mum will get weaker, neither of them are safe and nothing will be done until there is an emergency My dad has Alzheimer’s, which is not unusual for an 84-year-old man. He lives with my mum, who is also in her 80s, in a two-bedroom apartment in Canberra. My mum has multiple sclerosis, which makes looking after a fit, otherwise healthy man with Alzheimer’s very challenging. Dad cannot think in any structured way. He can’t really understand what’s going on around him and he can’t follow verbal instructions. He’s too big and strong to wrestle in and out of clothes, the way you would with a small child, but he has to be wrestled in and out of clothes fairly often because he also doesn’t really understand when he needs to go to the toilet. Continue reading...

on the untimely murder of Meanjin