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Thesis Passing Presents (to myself), courtesy of Fuller's and Cracked and Spineless in Hobart. 🥳

Get your #Christmas gift shopping completed early & greenly with TLC's book Breathing space. It's been restocked @ Alma Supply Store, @designtas, Devonport Bookshop, @FullersHobart, Petrarchs Bookshop, State Cinema Hobart, Wild Island Tas, P&W Huonville + Hastings Caves.

Tonight! 6.30! Dr Eugen Bacon presents a public talk on "The Writer as an Agent of Change." At the Hedberg and streamed via Zoom. utas.edu.au/events/2024/oc…

@UTAS_ #writerinresidence @transitlounge2 If you're in Tasmania, please join me at the Hedberg Talk tomorrow. 💞utas.edu.au/events/2023/ma…

Join writers including @EugenBacon, current #Hedberg Writer in Residence, for "Read, Write, Publish … Speculative Fiction: A Day of Conversations, Masterclasses and Workshops" as part of the #TamarValleyWritersFestival next Monday: utas.au/fY

The programme for AMSN6 is now out! We’re excited for December! amsn.org.au/amsn6-modernis…

My excellent colleague @LisaFletcherTas and I had so much fun talking to Jen Hoyer at the @NewBooksNetwork podcast about ... well, our new book, Space, Place and Bestsellers, with @CambridgeUP . @UTASEnglish newbooksnetwork.com/space-place-an…

Reading Kate Kruimink's latest, her @WeatherglassBks Novella Prize-winner, and it is superb.

I’m discussing Colm Tóibín’s new novel Long Island with ⁦@johnjamesohara⁩ on ⁦@abchobart⁩ just after 9pm tonight… … and for context, this is the photo of Colm I passed daily during my Fellowship ⁦@ransomcenter⁩ ⁦@UTAustin⁩ last year

Opening soon: Keziah Warner's Nosferatu - a revision of the vampire classic, set in NW Tasmania. Featuring some colleagues and friends of @UTASEnglish! tasmania.events/event/28772007…

Why take 1 when you can take 2? ✌️ Coming to you from the southernmost tip of Australia, @islandmagtas is a national beacon for diverse, vibrant writing. Luckily for you, a joint subscription to Island + @VoiceworksMag costs just $117 a year! Snag a sub: expressmedia.org.au/store/p/voicew…

Robbie Arnott has won the 2024 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, worth $25,000, for his novel Limberlost (published by @text_publishing ): booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/…

Our alumnus and inaugural Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Robbie Arnott has been awarded one of Australia’s most significant history-writing prizes for his beloved novel Limberlost: utas.au/GreenPrizeWin

Week Two of #HEN205 - The World of Children's Books - @UTASEnglish and everyone's getting to think about Barangaroo in 'My Place', and we've had short story arcs for aspiring sailors, racing car drivers, and anthropomorphic chairs...

Hobart people! at 5:30pm on Thursday 15 August I'll be in conversation about Deep Water with @SabraLane at @FullersBookshop. It would be fantastic to see you there! @penguinbooksaus @ScribeUKbooks @harperonebooks fullersbookshop.com.au/event/deep-wat…

Debut book launch! Liz Evans is a British journalist, author, former psychotherapist and @UTAS_ creative writing scholar. She'll be in conversation @FullersHobart with Danielle Wood about her new psychological thriller, Catherine Wheel. fullersbookshop.com.au/event/catherin…

Semester 2 is about to start @UTASEnglish, and I'm lucky enough to be Unit Coordinator for #HEN205 - Children's Literature! 🥳 So much to explore: reading, writing, publishing, curation, and history of books for children; it's going to be a(n intellectual) blast...

Thanks to Lindsay, Alex and all the folk at ASLE EcoCast Podcast for the chance to talk about my research on the human side of Antarctica: podbean.com/pu/pbblog-3h9j… @UTASEnglish @AntarcticHASS