Saturday 10th August
Love Your Bookshop Day - Tasmanian Authors Showcase
10.00 - 11.00 So you want to write a book? What do you need to know?
This panel tackles the publishing journey from all sides. Free Event.
Lucinda Sharp Publisher at 40South gives the industry perspective.
Janice Sutton Self-publisher of a highly successful cook book.
Jackie Merchant HarperCollins published her teen novel.
Sharon Yaxley Author and artist of a series of popular picture books.
Bonus: attendees get the top five tips from each presenter.
11.15 - 12.15 Tasmania Dreaming - How Tasmania inspires us
Tim Flannery describes Tasmania as 'the most astonishing island on Earth'. Listen to four Tasmanian writers living the dream. Free Event.
Prue Hutton & Sally Ord “Maria” demonstrates the link between an artist’s viewpoint and, using yarn to design, wearing the associated memory.
Phillip Kuruvita From food to cars, capturing by camera Tasmanian treasures.
Don Defenderfer In prose and poetry recording 30 years of insight into the Tasmanian environment.
Rick Smith Tasmanian cricket player, historian, writer and photographer.
12.30 - 1.30 Tasmanian fiction inspired by place
Tasmanians explore their world through short story, memoir and longer fiction. Free Event.
Shirley Patton The Secrets We Keep
Wendy Laing Memoir of an Arresting Woman
Margaret South F and B House Sitting
1.45 - 2.45 Chasing Our Convict Past
The past weighs and illuminates Tasmania today. Tasmanians find inspiration in the early years of European settlement. Free Event.
Brian Harrison Lever Transported tales of Misfortune and Roguery
Sue Cox Banished beyond the seas. A saga of Van Diemen’s Land
Patrick Howard Pubs and Publicans of Tasmania’s Old West
3.00 pm Sue Cox - book launch
Breastfeeding and Parenting - your baby will teach you how. Free Event.
12.45 to 3.00 Knitting Workshop
Hear Prue and Sally talk about Maria , Voyages in Design, Art to Knit at 11.15 to 12.15. If you wish to join a workshop with Prue and Sally to knit a Cape Barren Goose hat, please register with your name and email address (info@storiesbookshop.com) and we will forward further details.
The workshop with Prue and Sally costs $49.95, but for that price you receive a copy of their book.
Saturday 10th August
Love Your Bookshop Day - Tasmanian Authors Showcase
Panel One - 10.00 - 11.00
So, you want to write a book? What do you need to know?
This panel tackles the publishing journey from all sides. We’ll hear from a publisher, a self-published, award-winning non-fiction author, a self-published picture book author and a YA author published by a major publisher.
Lucinda Sharp
After a career in ballet and psychology, in 2012 Lucinda moved to Hobart where she and her husband, Chris Champion, own and run Forty South Publishing, publishers of the state's iconic magazine, Tasmania 40° South, and the largest book publisher in Tasmania.
Janice Sutton
Janice Sutton is a former BBC national radio journalist, writer, author and publisher of international award-winning books Garlic Feast and Tomato: know, sow, grow, feast.
Jackie Merchant
Jackie Merchant has worked as a designer, art director and copy writer. She currently lives in Tasmania. The Promise Horse is her debut novel.
Sharon Yaxley
Sharon’s literary journey began three years ago and she has written, illustrated and published five children’s books based in Tasmania with the assistance of Forty South Publishing.
Dunstan and Theodore, Theodore Swims in the Sea, Dunstan and Theodore Set Sail, Dunstan and Theodore Hide and Seek and Sea Monsters.
Bonus: attendees get the top five tips from each presenter.
All author panels are free of charge. Nibbles will be available.
Saturday 10th August
Love Your Bookshop Day - Tasmanian Authors Showcase
Panel Two - 11.15 – 12.15
Tasmania Dreaming - How Tasmania inspires us
Tim Flannery describes Tasmania as 'the most astonishing island on Earth'. This panel focuses on the various ways that Tasmanians respond in words, images and craft to their environment. Listen to four Tasmanian writers living the dream.