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Nonfiction Viv Cutbush Nonfiction Viv Cutbush

hope thicks the air - by Viv Cutbush

… It’s about the movement of water. Clay, silt, sand and gravel. The skin of a mountain ash tree. It’s about Joan of Arc and hope in the dark. It’s about the futility of words, except without words all we are left with is what goes unsaid …

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Nonfiction, Arts Features Cameron Hindrum Nonfiction, Arts Features Cameron Hindrum

Stepping Back from The Edge: Re-imagining Queenstown - by Cameron Hindrum

… one might wonder exactly where the future lies. It might be too bold to imagine that it lies in the arts. However, there are many examples of arts festivals driving regional renewal, establishing new parameters of community engagement in areas that might otherwise have been written off, if not actually abandoned …

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Nonfiction Jonno Revanche Nonfiction Jonno Revanche

Friends of Charlene: The Angelic Engineering of Kylie Minogue - by Jonno Revanche

In 2010, at the behest of absolutely no one, Kylie Minogue decided to become an angel. In the music video for ‘All the Lovers’, Kylie was lifted up on the shoulders of a scantily clad flesh army, an architectural flash mob and assemblage fantasy brought to life by director Joseph Kahn … Her dutiful gays scurried to meet her as if by a wordless summoning. Her hair billowed behind her, her torso wrapped in Jean Paul Gaultier, those white-banded leather lines crisscrossing her like wings as she conducted the crowds below. She is exactly how we perceive goodness: luminescent (and with an expensive wig!) …

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Nonfiction Hollen Singleton Nonfiction Hollen Singleton

Horse People - by Hollen Singleton

‘You see that horse there,’ the veterinarian said to me, hushed. ‘That’s Makybe Diva.’ No, it’s not, I thought. Just because I wasn’t one of them, just because I was a townie who didn’t know how to ride, didn’t mean they could mess with me …

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Nonfiction Gabrielle Lis Nonfiction Gabrielle Lis

Boom and Bust in the Gaiety - by Gabrielle Lis

Zeehan, Tasmania
On Main Street stands the Gaiety Theatre, a grand old building painted in ice-cream parlour pastels: mint green, vanilla cream, pale strawberry, frosted boysenberry. Locals will tell you Houdini performed there, walked a tightrope from the roof across to a nearby hotel …

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Nonfiction Jeanette M Thompson Nonfiction Jeanette M Thompson

Trove - by Jeanette M Thompson

Rowella, Tasmania
The villages of the West Tamar municipality dot the shore, like a string of pearls, from Launceston to the sea. We thought this valley was Australia’s best-kept secret when we discovered it …

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Nonfiction Bert Spinks Nonfiction Bert Spinks

Layers of Liffey - by Bert Spinks

Liffey, Tasmania
It’s not an easy walk, but if you haul yourself up Drys Bluff, you’ll get a sense of where the Liffey River carves its course through the bush, running parallel to a grey road, travelling east …

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