Anne Layton-Bennett

Anne Layton-Bennett is a freelance writer - which allows her to talk to lots of interesting and fascinating people and tell their stories about the work they do, and the lives they’ve lived. She has been a regular contributor of science-based, animal-related articles for specialist monthly magazine The Veterinarian for almost 20 years, and she also writes the occasional feature for online publication Tasmanian Times. Currently Anne is also working on a non-fiction memoir that tells the story of a community’s campaign to stop what would have been ‘the world’s fourth largest pulp mill’ being built in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley.

Plastic catastrophe

By Anne Layton-Bennett • 17 Apr, 2024

Low Head's fascinating Maritime Museum

Review of The Radio Hour by Victoria Purman

Reviewing books

04 Apr, 2024

Scoring advance copies of books to review from the Better reading team.

Scarecrows - a rural revival

By Anne Layton-Bennett • 19 Mar, 2024

A Tasmanian local community has embraced the idea of scarecrows as part of its Harvest Festival celebrations this year. Farmers around the world have used such 'bird scarers' for centuries but since the 1990s in rural Britain the practice has been successfully adopted by several communities to help revive small rural villages.