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First Nations Writing Workshop
Kim Scott, Alexis Wright, Melissa Lucashenko, Tony Birch, Bruce Pascoe, andYvette Holtare just some of the speakers and panellists appearing at the inaugural First Nations Writing Workshop to be held at the State Library of Queensland from 9-10 May this ... |
25/03/2013 09:19:32 |
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Writers in the Eye of the Storm
The Eye of the Storm: Frontiers and Horizons will be held in Alice Springs from 25-28 April. This festival of new Australian writing, culture and ideas is being organised and run by the NT Writers’ Centre, and will include panels, workshops, film ... |
18/03/2013 09:17:10 |
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Indigenous Writers - Fellowship Opportunities
Entries are open for the State Library of Queensland's national black&write! writing competition. The competition offers two fellowships to both published and unpublished Indigenous authors. Entries can be novels, short stories, poetry or books for ... |
20/12/2012 09:25:12 |
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Indigenous Fellowships for Writers
Entries are now open for the State Library of Queensland's national black&write! writing competition. The competition offers fellowships to both published and unpublished Indigenous authors. Entries can be novels, short stories, poetry or books for ... |
15/11/2012 09:09:39 |
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ACCELERATE Winners Head to UK
The British Council Australia has announced the 2012 winners of ACCELERATE, the Indigenous Creative Leadership program. The six awardees are now undertaking three-week development courses in the UK. This year’s winners include playwright Jane ... |
23/10/2012 11:06:08 |
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Languages Other than English Publishing Initiative
The Australia Council is seeking proposals from Australian publishers who wish to ‘translate into English and publish the work of living Australian authors who write in languages other than English’. Proposals may include the publication of ... |
24/09/2012 10:44:16 |
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Australian Centre Literary Awards Announced
The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne recently announced the winners of three awards:Dallas Winmar is the 2012 Kate Challis Raka Award winner, Amy Barker wins the 2012 D. J. ‘Dinny’ O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship, and Kim ... |
12/09/2012 11:04:19 |
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Anita Heiss Wins the VPLA Award for Indigenous Writing
Anita Heiss’s Am I Black Enough for You? has won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. The award, presented biennially, is worth $20,000. Heiss's book was named the winner from a shortlist that included Jeanine ... |
6/09/2012 13:58:50 |
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'Rigorous' Biography Wins Christian Book of the Year Award
Murray Seiffert’s biography of Michael Gumbuli Wurramara, Gumbuli of Ngukurr: Aboriginal Elder in Arnhem Land, is the winner of the 2012 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award. Wurramara was the first Indigenous Australian to become an Anglican ... |
30/08/2012 10:17:19 |
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Happy Anniversary, BlackWords
BlackWords will celebrate its fifth anniversary in Brisbane on 19 and 20 October. Celebrations kick off at 6pm on Friday, 19 October at the Avid Reader Bookshop, Boundary Street, West End. This event will celebrate five years of BlackWords, which ... |
22/08/2012 11:39:44 |
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2012 Deadly Finalists Announced
The finalists for this year’s Deadly Awards have been announced. The awards, hosted by events management agency Vibe Australia, ‘recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to their community and to Australian ... |
13/08/2012 15:31:57 |
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Blackfellas ... Writefellas
Blackfellas ... Writefellas is the title of the next BL.INK: black ink performance evening to be held in Brisbane on Thursday 19 July. Hosted by Steven Oliver, this BL.INK event will feature performances by Sean Dow, Kaylah Tyson and Yvette Walker. The ... |
17/07/2012 14:25:30 |
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Kim Scott Named Western Australian of the Year
Kim Scott, a multi-award-winning writer and member of the Noongar community, is Western Australia’s citizen of the year for 2012. Scott’s writing, research and community involvement were behind his selection. ‘His writing is valued for ... |
13/06/2012 13:19:00 |
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National Biography Award to ANU Historian
Dr Martin Thomas, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History at The Australian National University, is the winner of the 2012 National Biography Award. Thomas won the $25,000 award for his 2011 biography, The Many Worlds of R. ... |
15/05/2012 12:51:52 |
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Jeanine Leane Shortlisted for New Commonwealth Prize
Jeanine Leane is one of four Australians shortlisted for the inaugural Commonwealth Book Prize. Leane, a former co-ordinator of AustLit’s BlackWords Research Community, is shortlisted for her intertwined collection of stories, Purple Threads. Other ... |
1/05/2012 13:55:13 |
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BlackWords Fifth Anniversary Symposium – Call for Papers
Proposals for the BlackWords fifth anniversary celebration and symposium are due by Saturday, 10 March 2012. BlackWords is a rich resource representing a wide variety of cultural and creative fields and genres in which Indigenous writers and storytellers ... |
6/03/2012 14:25:17 |
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Victorian Government Announces Indigenous Honour Roll Inductees
The Victorian government has established an Indigenous Honour Roll to celebrate the lives and accomplishments of Indigenous people ‘whose efforts have significantly impacted society’. The names of the first twenty inductees have been revealed. ... |
22/02/2012 11:25:44 |
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Australia's First Children's Laureates Announced
Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor are to be Australia’s first Children’s Laureates. The inaugural announcement was made in Adelaide on 6 December and the appointment is the culmination of a campaign by the Australian Children’s ... |
12/12/2011 12:57:07 |
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Dr Aunty Ruby Langford Ginibi : January 1934-October 2011
Dr Aunty Ruby Ginibi was born on Invasion Day, 26 January 1934, and, sadly, passed away on 1 October 2011. Aunty Ruby was given the title Ginibi, meaning 'black swan', by her Bundjalung Elders, and she was one of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal ... |
11/10/2011 15:50:00 |
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Death of Ruby Langford Ginibi
Respected Bundjalung woman and writer Ruby Langford Ginibi has died in Sydney at the age of seventy-seven. 'Aunty Ruby' Ginibi came to public notice in 1988 through her autobiography Don't Take Your Love to Town. The book, published during Australia's ... |
4/10/2011 15:56:15 |