'This issue includes the winning and shortlisted entries from this year’s Island Nonfiction Prize. These essays thoughtfully explore our relationships with art, illness, sexuality and nature in compelling and beautiful writing.
'Island 165 is also packed with excellent new poetry and fiction that will startle, captivate, inspire and move you. You’ll even be intrigued by a story told through receipts, internet searches and playlists!
'Along with features on three wonderful painters, we bring you a taste of a large, timely artistic project: water[shed], in which 50 artists respond to the 50th anniversary of the inundation of Tasmania’s jewel-like original Lake Pedder. Enjoy' (Publication summary)