Robbie Arnott (picture by Mitch Osborne) and Amanda Lohrey (picture supplied by Text Publishing). Two award-winning authors who will be appearing at Hobart Writers Festival in October.
While COVID-led pandemonium caused many literary festivals across the country to be cancelled, Tasmania’s insulated island status has permitted plans for the upcoming Hobart Writers Festival, whose season is from 8-10 October 2021. The program will include a diverse array of writers but to encourage artistic freedom there will be no thematic restrictions.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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