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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Looks like it has been running since 2015 (longer than I thought) - I guess it's possible the funder has changed over that time? Particularly with the way UWAP had its publishing program limited...

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Disappointing to see the Dorothy Hewett Award has gone into hiatus - one more avenue for writers in Australia closed down. The industry really is in an evolving crisis. uwap.uwa.edu.au/pages/doroth...

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THE DOROTHY HEWETT AWARD

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...

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Meanjin subscriptions announced - $110 seems pretty steep for two print issues? subscribers.meanjin.com.au/join

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Meanjin

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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 04/08/2026

Ouston writes that “a country gets the poetry it deserves”. That might account for Gina Rinehart, but not this extraordinary novel. ‘Mine’ is proof that, every now and then, a country can produce a work of imagination far better than it deserves. mnth.ly/DPxYqm3

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‘Mine’

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

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Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you live in any of these places, or know anyone who does, we'd love to say gidday...

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I know! And I even got reviews, and sold DOZENS of books... :)

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Latest AI author scam offers this burn.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy Copyright Agency Day to all who celebrate.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Feeling super honoured to be commended for the Anne Elder. Really means a lot to me.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I've just hit a thing where an org who commissioned me to run a workshop is saying 'hey, bookings are low, if it stays that way, we could either cancel or negotiate a lower fee if you want to go ahead'. I'm wtf? Has anyone else encountered this kind of thing? Are kill fess normal from arts orgs?

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's great isn't it? I really hope lots of people try it out because I reckon a huge number of readers would have a ball with it.

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Tasmanian Inquirer @tasinquirer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

‘Very exciting’: Bushwalkers in remote southwest #Tasmania have discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant found nowhere else: King’s lomatia. Story by @benwaltez.bsky.social for #TasInq #politas ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...

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New site of critically endangered Tasmanian species found

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

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Well I’m stuck in Melaleuca for the next few days because of bad weather destroying tomorrow‘s flights, but I have the best friends (and one of the most epic pizza deliveries ever).

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Here's some new comic fiction from me in The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/fict...

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The captain is dressing as a pirate again

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Yes, from Marions. Supposed to be even better tomorrow so the ambit goal is to get the kids up Cradle. See how we go!

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just finished Byung-Chul Han's little book on the Burnout Society and a cool book of poetry by Autumn Richardson.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Meanjin returns! Thanks so much QUT…

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

oh I was just joking but hell, maybe?

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Fermenting cherry plums this time of year.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Username checks out, I guess?

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

in fairness, she wouldn't have written the headline...

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just got to interview Academy Award-nominated film director Paul Greengrass about some Tasmanian horses in the 1980s. I love being a weird writer.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

35 Degrees in Huonville, can't cope. I know you have it worse in Melbourne but I have Tasmanian blood which actually boils around this point.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is such a good book! Highly recommend...

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We got the kids up. We’re all out here lying on the grass in the Huon…

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It always used to die around 4pm on Christmas eve at Fullers. We would be delirious, basically.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

wish I could have been there!

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"On a closer, slower read, the poems reveal themselves. Their depths, it turns out, are camouflaged by how sonically seductive they are". Andy Jackson on @benwaltez.bsky.social's debut volume of poetry, Lithosphere www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...

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Lithosphere

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 ...

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

What if the Tim Tams are being reframed by the industry as that very Michelin dessert?

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It's just so naive. What on earth does she think is going to happen when the costs blow out?

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Thanks Andrew, appreciate you listening!

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you're a friend or fan of writer Robert Skinner, you may have heard about his terrible accident a couple months ago. This Sat night at Coburg RSL is a benefit to help him back on his feet, out of debt, and to get his razzle-dazzle back. Music, fun and party guaranteed. Details below. Come along!

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The Razzle Dazzle Restoration Project

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

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

congratulations Jake but also damn I feel you on this...

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I don't honestly know that it's ebooks? (though that might be part of it). I tend to think people are attracted now to books that seem 'manageable', which may be a time thing, or concentration, or both, or everything else...

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

oh yeah tell me about it! :) I struggle with a clear anything.

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Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Ridiculous, but somehow this rotten poetry book is still topping the bestsellers at Fullers six weeks after launch…

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