Writer in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Author of What Fear Was, Lithosphere. Walkley winner. Former Fiction Editor, Island. Words in The Kenyon Review, 3:AM Magazine, Poetry Ireland Review.
Experiments | Stories | Essays | Nature writing
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Ben Walter
Feeling super honoured to be commended for the Anne Elder. Really means a lot to me.
I've just hit a thing where an org who commissioned me to run a workshop is saying 'hey, bookings are low, if it stays that way, we could either cancel or negotiate a lower fee if you want to go ahead'. I'm wtf?
Has anyone else encountered this kind of thing? Are kill fess normal from arts orgs?
Nice day for it.
Well I’m stuck in Melaleuca for the next few days because of bad weather destroying tomorrow‘s flights, but I have the best friends (and one of the most epic pizza deliveries ever).
Here's some new comic fiction from me in The Saturday Paper.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/fict...
Well, I guess this is my first ever piece of breaking news - probably the biggest rare plant story in Australia this year. Over at @tasinquirer.bsky.social.
tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...
Well, I guess this is my first ever piece of breaking news - probably the biggest rare plant story in Australia this year. Over at @tasinquirer.bsky.social.
tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...
Great to be shortlisted for Tas Media Awards again - always feel like a bit of an imposter as a weirdo fiction writer doing journalism, but here we are.
www.meaa.org/meaa-media/s...
‘Very exciting’: New population of critically endangered Tasmanian species discovered in remote southwest
by @benwaltez.bsky.social for @tasinquirer.bsky.social
tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...
‘Very exciting’: Bushwalkers in remote southwest #Tasmania have discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant found nowhere else: King’s lomatia. Story by @benwaltez.bsky.social for #TasInq #politas
▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/very-ex...
Ben Walter
A group of bushwalkers walking in remote southwest Tasmania has discovered a new population of a critically endangered plant, King’s lomatia.
