Huon Writes

<p><strong>Connecting with family neighbours and the past: fiction and non-fiction on people and place in the Huon Valley.</strong></p><p>Madeleine Gasparanatos drives through the Cradoc fog and muses on the complexities of the Huon community; on a sunnier day Mark Ringer tours some of the quirkier corners of life in the valley. Mary-Lou Stephens shares how researching a novel gave her a profound respect for the Huon's orcharding families; Simon Crerar celebrates one of the valley's great historical matriarchs and interviews her descendant Jason Andrew Smith. Gemma Chilton explores memory and its loss in a few quiet moments with a slab of buttery Huon pine. Anne Tonner rediscovers joy in playing in the openhearted welcome of a local concert while Tansy Rayner Roberts gives the community spirit of the Little Free Libraries an unexpected twist. Andy Baird's poet seeks understanding in the mountains; Chrystine Klimek's letter-writer finds a sense of home in the wild water earth and sky of Lune River; and Jacq Ellem celebrates the undemanding acceptance and joy to be found when cold swimmers take the plunge.</p><p>Ten stories ten perspectives on living in the Huon.</p><p></p><p></p>