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Benjamin Allmon Benjamin Allmon i(6619227 works by)
Gender: Male
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Benjamin Allmon is an author, journalist, musician, and film producer. His memoir Foot Notes was released in 2016. His second published work, The Saltwater Story was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards' Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance in 2018, and adapted into a feature-length documentary film.

Allmon has written for various publications including,The Guardian, Voyeur Magazine, The Spectator, Opossum, Blank Magazine, Journeys Magazine,The Writer, and Aurealis.

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y separately published work icon The Saltwater Story Mount Tamborine : Benjamin Allmon , 2018 14478794 2018 single work prose travel

'[This] is the story of Allmon’s relationship with Indigenous canoe maker Kyle Slabb from the Bundjalung people and veteran paddler Mark Matthews, who, together with a group of young men (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) build traditional canoes and embark on a 70km, 3-day sea voyage re-tracing an ancient trade route from the heart of the Queensland Gold Coast to North Stradbroke Island, a journey not made for over 100 years.'

Source: Author's website.

2018 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance
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