Tassie’s Whale Boys: Whaling in Antarctic waters by Michael Stoddart | PBIn the 1920s the Norwegian whalers called into Hobart with their factory ships and harpoon guns. Their cruel slaughter eventually brought the huge fin and blue whales in the frigid water of Antarcticas Ross Sea to the brink of extinction. In October 1923, twelve young Tasmanian men signed on for the adventure of a lifetime and altogether 132 Tasmanians joined the Norwegian whaling expeditions over the eight following summers. All of them sought

and you were right

and with a string of broken relationships behind her

while hair-raising stories about European predators—wolves and hyenas—were repeated in texts

he forged ahead

depriving water frontage

The eight best entries from the Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2025 as selected by Rayne Allinson

enriching the relationship between seeing and interpretation

The subject is the Cascades Female Factory

The Abels Above the heart of Tasmania | Rob Shaw

Forty South Tasmanian Writers’ Prize 2016

but do not know what a bettong

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