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Hannah Donnelly Hannah Donnelly i(9297174 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Wiradjuri
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1 y separately published work icon Blacklight : Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling Hannah Donnelly (editor), Western Sydney : Sweatshop , 2022 24537052 2022 anthology poetry short story prose essay art work

'Blacklight : Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling is a definitive anthology of writing produced entirely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives from Western Sydney and beyond.?This powerful collection showcases forty-eight short stories, vignettes, poems, essays and artworks that have been developed over the past ten years as part of the nationally renowned literacy movement known as Sweatshop.' (Publication summary)
1 Soft Edges i "tea is a bush art", Hannah Donnelly , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tell Me Like You Mean It 4 2020;
1 Black Thoughts : Pemulwuy Hannah Donnelly , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: After Australia 2020; (p. 251-258)

'I had never before considered whether an Aboriginal person could be an Anglophile. Then I came across one, a full-on black Anglophile. I thought being an Anglophile was a kind of paedophile to be honest, which would be an awkward thing to publicly admit so I looked it up later when they left in a cloud of earl grey and spotted dick: it means a person who greatly admires or favours England and all things English. I mean, sure I went through a phase of watching period dramas about rich British ladies yearning for the D, which was a bit of a sadistic habit, but this was a whole other level. ' (Introduction)
1 Black Thoughts : Horses and Mules Hannah Donnelly , 2020 single work prose
— Appears in: After Australia 2020; (p. 159-164)
1 Black Thoughts : Miscegenation Hannah Donnelly , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: After Australia 2020; (p. 77-86) 'I broke my arm in Eugowra, a small place in central New South Wales, in the summer holidays before I started Year 3. I was at my uncle's place with his stepkids. The older kids were going for a paddock bash in an old beat-up car with buckets for seats. Me and my younger cousin wanted to go for a ride on our bikes. I didn't have my own bike, I had my brother's old BMX, the colours of fire sprayed over the black frame. I was ashamed that I didn't have a real bike and had to ride the BMX everywhere like a tomboy. I tried to accessorise with blue handlebar pads but it looked dumb. That day in the paddock me and my cousin were told firmly by my dad and uncle, her stepdad, to stay away from the boys hooning around. We weren't allowed to ride up the long dirt driveway to the main road. Like normal kids, we ignored the rules and rode over to where the boys were doing burnouts.' (Introduction)
 
1 Black Thoughts : Unreconciliatory Futures Hannah Donnelly , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: After Australia 2020; (p. 1-8) 'I'm gonna educate you gronks. I get pissed off when white people wear the Aboriginal flag. Hey you. rah I'm talking to you. At protests, at exhibition openings, in selfies on Invasion Day, or because you lived in the Northern Territory for five years. I don't think there is ever a time in space for white bearers of the Koori flag. I should say Aboriginal flag cause south-east Aboriginal people, we don't own the flag. I had a Noongar housemate once who would always get annoyed when it came up and say, 'Yeh, you mean the Noongar flag.' (Introduction)
1 After the End of Their World i "Waterless country spread out underneath Yandamula. She was windsurfing the", Hannah Donnelly , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019; This All Come Back Now 2022; (p. 331-334)
1 Black Ducks i "I used to watch dad hunt", Hannah Donnelly , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 21 2017; (p. 72-74)
1 MtDNA i "Ashir ghannitlean ami payachea botacher chollun darvatea tarfen gelim. = We almost tip toed through the gate, up the narrow dirt track along the edges", Hannah Donnelly , Favita Dias (translator), 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , October no. 55.1 2016;
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