UP AND COMING / 25: Finalists in the Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2025 | PB Reference Becoming Ellie is gorgeously crafted

Becoming Ellie is gorgeously crafted in both word and image

Tasmania’s first pioneer conservationist who helped conserve and establish Cradle Mountain National Park

a ramshackle structure shared with the Brown Serpent

Set in the 1980s

These true tales commemorate some of the many ponies Jacqui has known and loved

UP AND COMING / 25: Finalists in the Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2025 | PB Reference Becoming Ellie is gorgeously craftedStories from the ten finalists in the Young Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2025 as selected by Blake Nuto, Lyndon Riggall, Nick Brodie and Rayne Allinson. What a joy it is to read and encourage such promising young writers. Each piece shows courage, imagination, and a willingness to experiment with words in ways that truly impressed me. Blake Nuto, Tasmanian author (judge in this year's Junior Section) The Young Tasmanian Writers Prize began in 2014 as a