Introducing Island's new Nonfiction Editor
We are delighted to announce that Keely Jobe has joined the Island team as our new Nonfiction Editor.
Team Changes
After leading Island's editorial team for over seven years, Vern Field will be changing her role from Managing Editor to Online Editor …
Funding announcement
We are pleased to announce that Island has secured multi-year organisational funding from Arts Tasmania. We thank the Tasmanian Government for its support.
Winner of the 2023 Island Nonfiction Prize
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Island Nonfiction Prize is Indigo Bailey for 'Rain Rain.'
Announcing the 2023 Nonfiction Prize shortlist
We were once again overwhelmed by the quality of both writing and ideas we've seen in the Island Nonfiction Prize. This year's shortlist reflects the many different ways Australians are writing, with mixed media, fragments, academia and poetics all featuring …
And the winners are...
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2023 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize are:
Winner
Brigid Coleridge for 'Day 210'
Runners-up
Chris Andrews for 'Shedload'
Shey Marque for 'Improbable Acts of Proximity'
Highly Commended
Caroline Reid for 'Rhyming Poem'
The 2023 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize Shortlist
This year's judges were Island's poetry editor, Kate Middleton, Jill Jones and Shastra Deo. Each judge read all submissions 'blind', and after much discussion, came to a collective shortlist of ten poems.
The shortlisted poets/poems are …
Meet Island's new Fiction Editor
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Jane Rawson has joined the Island team. Jane will be taking on the role of Fiction Editor for the print issues.
Winner of the 2022 Island Nonfiction Prize
I’m thrilled to announce the winner of the 2022 Island Nonfiction Prize: Heather Taylor Johnson’s ‘Selfish Ghosts’.
Nonfiction Prize 2022 Shortlist
We have once again been spoiled for choice! This year’s entrants to the Island Nonfiction Prize were in equal parts powerful, moving, funny, furious and sad, and choosing a shortlist from hundreds of submissions was quite a task.