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Ben Walter

Ben Walter is a Tasmanian writer of lyrical fiction. His stories have appeared in Island, Overland, Griffith Review and the Lifted Brow.

January 2025

  • Stock image of climber on top of Federation peak

    Summer essentials
    I’ve been climbing Tasmanian mountains for years – but I’m terrified of heights

    Ben Walter
    Our society emphasises the value of conquering and overcoming your fears – but I can live with the idea of not climbing every mountain

March 2017

  • Sarah Anne Rocks

    Speaking for the trees: hope, despair and regrowth in Tasmania's charred forests

    Large parts of the the Tarkine wilderness – the biggest tract of temperate rainforest in the southern hemisphere – burned in the fires of 2016. Author Ben Walter visited the region and found devastation, and hope
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