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Brenda Saunders Brenda Saunders i(A82640 works by)
Also writes as: Brenda Palma
Born: Established: 1946 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal Wiradjuri ; Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Brenda Saunders is a Sydney based urban Aboriginal artist, poet and activist, with family connections to the Wiradjuri language group of New South Wales. She is also a member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative and her poetry and articles have appeared in numerous poetry journals and collected anthologies in Australia.

Saunders has been a member of the Poets Union NSW and the Round Table Poets and completed her Masters Degree at Wollongong University in 1996.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 finalist The Joanne Burns Award — National category
2023 finalist The Joanne Burns Award
2023 recipient Varuna Fellowships — Varuna Residential Fellowships for her poetry collection ‘My Boomerang Never Came Back’
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Awards for Works

Mambenha Paaka : Crying the River i "After the flood the Baaka slows", 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 38 2024; (p. 110-112)
2023 highly commended Venie Holmgren Environmental Poetry Prize
Quandongs i "I remember days at La Pa", 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2018; Verity La , November 2018;
2018 winner Queensland Poetry Festival Awards — Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize
Microcosmos i "Spinifex rings spread across the desert", 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Dazzled : The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize 2014; (p. 70-71) The Best Australian Poems 2015 2015;
2014 longlisted The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
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