Category: Hot Desk
The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre launched its inaugural Hot Desk residency program this year, inviting writers aged 18-30 to embark on individual projects in our Salamanca Arts Centre studio space. Our resident Erin Hortle is part-way through a creative writing PhD at the University of Tasmania. An ongoing concern of her academic and freelance writing is […]
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AUTUMN // 1834 // The Province of Salamanca (The Cottage Green) The leaves were blood red, falling from the sky and scraping along the ground. A dangerous chill settled around the Province of Salamanca and the clouds rolled over full of the promise of rain. There was a buzz around the port as citizens curled […]
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iv: aftertaste; burnt coffee I spent eternities in that café waiting asking the room to take its place at the foot of my table kick off its shoes and start talking telling me everything […]
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ii: for example during the convergence the resident’s real success was their invention of the forced poem a poem with no substance no tangy flesh or love or beauty no forethought architecture or structure no driving force lightning arc great fire of creation no kindling spark or seed simply obligation default position […]
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i: manifesto of the forced poems forced poem, noun: an anti-poem non-being inexistence e.g. pressing exhausted fruit; wringing a dry cloth with expectation of a pouringout; forcing the contents from a void Michael Stratford Hutch completed this poem as part of the Tasmanian Writers Centre Hot […]
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