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Title Voices of the Southern Ocean: A Nipaluna/Hobart Anthology

RRP $26.99

ISBN: 978-1-7635427-09

Publication date 17 March 2025

Publisher Hobartisan Books

Format info specs paperback | 178 x 111 mm | 114 pp | full-colour printing, incl. inner front & back covers

Voices of the Southern Ocean offers a showcase of Tassie literary talent in one stylish volume. With over 50 writers & artists, it’s the largest ensemble of Tassie literary works in one book!

This anthology is the first initiative of Hobart UNESCO City of Literature. Based on popular demand around the city, we are now making it widely available for sale!

Key points

·       Supports local literary initiatives: All net profits go to UNESCO Hobart City of Literature to fund new projects.

·       Stylish design and compact format: This edition is a portable 178 x 111 mm paperback, featuring the glorious design and vibrant two-tint sea-themed colourways of the original gift edition.

·       Celebrates authentic and diverse voices in our city and the scope of talent in Nipaluna/Hobart’s literary scene: Authors spans new and emerging voices to some of our most esteemed writers and well-known figures around town, plus a few honorary Hobartians (full list below).

This anthology brings together over 50 writers and artists from Nipaluna/Hobart and beyond with all-original short works inspired by personal connections and reflections on the vast and mysterious waters that lie just south of our beautiful coastline. The collection includes splash fiction, reflective prose, micro-nonfiction and polar poetry, presenting a distinctly local perspective about the precious waters close to our home. Together, these authors form a chorus of local literary voices for the Southern Ocean, its creatures and its future.

Contributor list Alyssa Bermudez, Dean Greeno, Dr Annalise Rees, Elizabeth Leane , Jam Graham-Blair, Kim Bambrook, Meg Bignell, Carmel Bird, Christina Booth, Karen Brooks, Bob Brown, Michelle Cahill, Lucy Christopher, Young Dawkins, Sarah Day, Madeleine Delany, Emily Direen, Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn, Rae Earl, Adrienne Eberhard, Liz Evans,  Lily Fletcher Stojcevski, Tony Flowers, Nicole Gill, Susie Greenhill, Dr Cameron Hindrum, Erin Hortle, Arianne James, Dr Katherine Johnson, Gail Jones, Kate Kruimink, Alison Lester, Alison Mann, Dr Joy McCann, Anne Morgan, Rhys Muldoon, Mallika Naguran, Stephen Nicol, Esther Ottaway, Adam Ouston, Yvette Poshoglian, Jane Rawson, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Theresa Sainty, Katherine Scholes, Rachael Treasure Coral Tulloch Claire van Ryn, Ben Walter, Suyanti Winoto-Lewin, Danielle Wood, Cassandra Wunsch; Foreword by Lord Mayor of Hobart, Anna Reynolds.