Meet the director of Tasmania’s newest literary festival

LJM Owen is a novelist, archaeologist, and the director of Terror Australis, a crime readers and writers festival in Tasmania.
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LJM Owen (author of The Great Divide and the Dr Pimms series) decided to start her own crime literature festival in Tasmania.

After 15 years in Canberra bureaucracy, LJM Owen had had enough. A couple of years ago, the crime fiction writer and her partner moved to Tasmania in order to have a lifestyle that allowed more time for creative pursuits while still making it possible to pay the bills.

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