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Jillian Boyd Bowie Jillian Boyd Bowie i(14893872 works by) (a.k.a. Jillian Boyd)
Born: Established: Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Torres Strait Islander
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BiographyHistory

Jillian Boyd Bowie is a Torres Strait Islander woman from the Samsep and Zagareb tribes of Erub and Mer. She is an author, poet and songwriter, born and raised on Thursday Island. After her engagement to Richard (Uncle Richy) Bowie, she relocated with her six children to Darwin, Northern Territory, where she works as a mentor for an Indigenous employment program.

In 2012, Jillian won the black+write Indigenous Writing Fellowship, along with Tori-Jay Mordey, for Bakir and Bi. In 2018, her poetry was highly commended in the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize.

Exhibitions

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Awards for Works

A Suite of Three Poems 2018 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2018;
2018 highly commended Queensland Poetry Festival Awards — Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize
y separately published work icon Bakir and Bi Broome : Magabala Books , 2013 Z1922956 2013 single work children's fiction children's

'Based on a Torres Strait Islander creation story with illustrations by 18-year-old Tori-Jay Mordey. Bakir (rock) and Mar (storm bird) live on a remote island called Egur with their two young children. While fishing on the beach Bakir comes across a very special pelican (Bakir’s totem is a pelican) named Bi. A famine occurs, and life on the island is no longer harmonious. One day Bakir and Bi disappear and Mar and the children are forced to make the journey to another island by canoe ... and so begins the adventure. There are supernatural themes, totemic connections and kinship relationships — and the island names are imaginary as are the characters. The moral of the story is that everyone has a destiny and a purpose in life.' (Publication summary)
2013 finalist Deadly Sounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music, Sport, Entertainment and Community Awards — Published Book Of The Year
2014 selected White Ravens
2012 joint winner black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships
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