Daughters of the Tide: The gorgeously atmospheric 2026 debut that explores secrets and selkies in 1920s Tasmania

Arianne is a writer of fiction and an avid reader. She lives in Hobart on the beautiful island of lutruwita, Tasmania, surrounded by the ocean and an ever watchful mountain. Her stories have been published in The Hunter Writers Centre’s Grieve anthology, Swinburne University’s journals Backstory and Other Terrain, Corvid Queen magazine and Voices of the Southern Ocean. Arianne holds a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (2017) and First-Class Honours in Creative Writing (2019) from the University of Tasmania, and is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy (2024). Her writing has taken her on residencies to Varuna, KSP Writers Centre, Patterdale House and Chateau d’Orquevaux. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the HNSA Elizabeth Jane Corbett mentorship, and in 2022 shortlisted for the Margaret Scott Young Writers Fellowship at the Tasmanian Literary Awards. She coordinates TasWriters youth workshop program, and hosts The Book Shelf on Edge Radio (99.3FM), where she interviews people from the Tasmanian literary community and beyond. Arianne’s debut novel Daughters of the Tide will be published by HQ/HarperCollins in June 2026. She is currently working on her second work of historical fiction.