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TasWriters is dedicated to encouraging, supporting and promoting Tasmanian stories and storytelling, and one of the most powerful things anyone can do is facilitate (and pay for) the generation of new work. Emerging storytellers benefit massively from industry support, access to editing and creative development support and the confidence boost of being told that their voice has value.

Thanks to our funding partners, we have be privileged to support Tasmanian writers to produce work that responded to our location, history and experience.

Getting Creative During COVID

Defining Normality
(Digital Residency)

Three, $1000 residencies were offered to Tasmanian Writers as part of a collaborative project to create a new play engaging with the theme ‘Freedom and Liberty in a time of Corona Virus’.

Residents received $1000, one year free membership to TasWriters, an invitation to be interviewed and profiled for our social media platforms and an invitation to take part in the 2021 Hobart Writers Festival

The aim of this residency, outside of injecting much needed money into the community and enable literary creation, is to shed light on the powerful role that writers play in the cultural landscape during times of stress.

Between the 27th of July and the 30th of October TasWriters supported the residents to meet online via our meeting platform. They developed  the new piece to the point of ‘first reading’, and with the support of TaPP offered a public reading.

This public reading was timed to coincide with Sunday the 15th of November, the international day of the imprisoned writer. This is an important celebration of the importance of free speech, community interaction and the role of words in defining our world.

Freedom and Liberty in a time of Corona Virus

Congratulations to the residents;

  • Bella Young, The Stare: An Autoethnography of Second Echo Ensemble Through Lockdown
  • Justy Phillips, What We Cannot See, Personal Essay.
  • Katherine Johnson, Shifting Recollections of Nature’s Normal, Essay – Part one is available to read via Forty South
  • Vicki Kelleher, Sacred in the Ordinariness, poem
  • Lauren McGrow, Kindness, Openness and Vulnerability: A Robust  Response to the War Against Covid-19, Essay.
Some of the winning pieces are published in publications with links provided above.

Participants received $1000 supported by the Copyright Agency.

During this crisis we are chose not to place tight strictures on how writers interpreted this residency, or how it was to be delivered. Word length was not specified but more substantial works were given more weighting in the selection process. Writers of different genres and styles were encouraged to apply. 


Young Writers in the City

 

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Young Writer in Launceston, Eloise Hart, also a talented photographer, kept a photojournal of her time working on the residency.

Young Writers in Hobart
(2015)


Young Writers in Launceston
(2016)

Young Writers in Devonport
(2017)

Young Writers in Glenorchy
(2017)


Young Writers in Other Locations


Lily Stojcevski has written The Diner on Mary Street. A short piece which builds a vivid and colourful connection and distinction between the quintessential American diner and our own Red Velvet Lounge in Cygnet as representative of the characters of their communities.

Oliver Maidment has produced a singularly original piece that you are invited to read both backwards and forwards, so we’ve provided it for you both ways! Red Velvet Days the First, and Red Velvet Days the Second.



‘Under the Sea’  was a one month’s paid residency at IMAS, in 2017, for two writers. It was made possible thanks to the generous funding of Inspiring Australia and of course IMAS. IMAS has embraced photographers, choreographers and visual artists as partners in their exploration and scientific inquiry to help bring their work to the public.

Jessica Cockerill and Suzi Claflin have been hot desking at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies and working hard to share IMAS work with the world.


Weekly Returns by Suzie Claflin
A beautiful essay about the use of whaling data to gain insight into these amazing marine mammals. It is gentle, even as it’s sad, and hopeful, even as it acknowledges a past we cannot hide from.




The Faces of Our Changing Oceans by Jessica Cockerill
Jessica came to us with an expression if interest that was a little bit different. Also an accomplished illustrator, Jessica has produced a touching and insightful essay around her experiences on placement at IMAS. I do suggest you look at it in full size, the illustrations are beautiful.


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