Hobart Writers MiniFest
Schedule
Fri, 28 Nov, 2025 at 11:30 pm to Sat, 29 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 am
UTC+11:00Location
Hadley's Orient Hotel | Hobart, TS
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This Spring, we are celebrating the growth and wins of our writing community in a full day event at Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart. Featuring much-loved locals, help share in honouring the wins, applauding the debuts, revelling in the joy of new releases and absorbing the humorous, inspiring and practical writing chat that is a foundation of these events. Writers include Karen Brooks, Ben Walter, Shayne Breen, Jo Dixon, Tas Literary Award Fiction winner Kate Kruimink, and many more across six sessions from 9.30am - 5pm. We are also honoured to be part of the Forty South Anthology Launch and hosting a published entrant in a Short-Form Writing panel.
Hobart Bookshop will be on site for your shopping needs with time between each session for buying, book signings, networking and getting your notes in order.
Day passes are available through the link in this Facebook event. Please see the individual events for each session's ticket link.
PROGRAM:
Historical Fiction: Stories Close to Our Hearts
We love our history - fact, fiction and the intertwining of the two. Bringing their connections, intimate knowledge, and many hours of passion and research to their work, join Karen Brooks (The Whisky Widow) and Angela Baker (Umarrah & George) with Claire van Ryn (Where the Birds Call Her Name).
https://www.trybooking.com/DGSSX
Publishing: Small, Mighty and a Little Bit of ‘An Upstart’
The practical side of getting your work published, with insights from Lucinda Sharp (Forty South), Niki Horan (Hobartisan Books) and Adam Ouston (Evercreech Editions)
https://www.trybooking.com/DGSTC
Short-Form Writing & Forty South Anthology 2025 Launch: Risk-takers and Thought-Makers
In what is a challenging literary landscape for the form, take heart and plenty to think about with words from Ben Walter (Lithosphere) and the Highly Commended entrant of the Forty South 2025 Anthology, /////, with Rayne Allinson of Forty South. Please then stay on for a reading and official launch of the Anthology.
https://www.trybooking.com/DGSTF
Female Voices in Contemporary Tasmanian Fiction
With unique, thrilling, heartfelt and humorous approaches, Meg Bignell (The Good Losers), Nadia Mahjouri (Half Truth) and Kate Kruimink (Heartease), led by Liz Evans (Catherine Wheel), all have something to say and we are here for it!
https://www.trybooking.com/DGSTH
First Tasmanians: A Deep History
Author, Shayne Breen in discussion with Andrew Darby (The Ancients). Shayne is an interdisciplinary historian who has worked closely with Tasmanian Aboriginal people for 35 years. His latest work is a ‘story of courage, continuity and an unwavering commitment to revitalising connections between country, culture and community.’
https://www.trybooking.com/DGSTI
Tassie Crime is Doing Fine
Crime, mysteries and thrillers are still filling our bookshelves and library bags, with this genre topping sales again this year, and our Tasmanian writers are no exception. Join David Owen (Pufferfish series) alongside Jo Dixon (A Disappearing Act) and Alan Carter (Franz Joseph).
https://www.trybooking.com/DGSTJ
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Where is it happening?
Hadley's Orient Hotel, 32 Murray St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia, HobartEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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