Cirrus@Austlit

'On a wet, cold, June afternoon in Hobart in 1979, a new literary magazine, the brainchild of Andrew Sant and Michael Denholm, was launched - by Gwen Harwood, no less. What started life as The Tasmanian Review soon became Island magazine. And here we are, forty years on, with the same philosophy that the editors articulated in their first editorial...' (Introduction)

'What should we do with our books? Pete Hay considers the survival, or doom, of the personal library in an era of decluttering, decorative minimalism and downsizing.' (Article introduction)

Liz Evans on bushfires and displacement.

'Researching a book about a 2002 murder, Laura Elizabeth Woollett travels to Norfolk Island, where she confronts the darkness in its complex present and notorious past.'

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'Rosie Flanagan and Miriam McGarry travelled to Iceland to participate in the Printing Matter residency at Skaftfell in September 2018. They shared their reflections with Island...' 

'Rohan Wilson wrestles with the art and ethics of writing about the people and places most at risk from a changing climate.'

Dean Stevenson travels to 'other Tasmanias' (islands, isolated cities, peninsulas) exploring the relationship among music, place, community and other fragile things...'

'Madeline Wells is a young First Nations woman living on Tasmania's North West Coast. She participated in the 'Communicating: The Heart of Literacy' symposium held at Government House in Hobart in 2018, which engaged a range of people across the Tasmanian community with the state's low level of functional literacy. This is Madeline's literacy story, in her own words...'