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black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships (2011-)
or kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowship ; or Black and Write Indigenous Writing Fellowships
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

black&write! Writing Fellowships are awarded to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander writers with an unpublished manuscript. Two Fellowships are awarded every year to assist with manuscript development, and a publishing opportunity.

The Fellowship is run by the black&write! national project run at State Library of Queensland, with the support of Australian Council for the Arts, Hachette Australia and Magabala Books.

The Fellowship was first offered in 2011. Not awarded in 2017.

Source: SLQ website.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2023

winner Dakota Feirer for the poetry and prose collection 'Moasic Flower'.
winner Jacob Gallagher for 'The Doubles'.

Year: 2022

winner Herb Wharton for 'Bird Kingdom'.
winner Lay Maloney for 'Weaving Us Together'.

Year: 2021

winner Susie Anderson for 'The Body Country' [poetry collection].
winner Tylissa Elisara for 'Wurrtoo'.

Year: 2020

winner Eunice Day for 'Rabbits by the Fence Line'.
winner Carl Merrison for 'Backyard Sports'.

Year: 2019

joint winner Tania Crampton-Larking for unpublished manuscript 'Brightest Wild'
joint winner Lisa Fuller for unpublished manuscript 'Welshpool'
VIEW ALL LISTED RECIPIENTS (48)

Works About this Award

10-Year Celebration of Black&write! 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 3 November no. 763 2021; (p. 14) 'FOR a decade the State Library of Queensland has run its black&write program, an initiative that is helping to address the underrepresentation of boriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices in literature.'  
 
First Nations Writers and Editors Celebrate Ten Years of the State Library of Queensland's Black&write! Project Rudi Bremer , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , December 2021;

'Nardi Simpson has always been a storyteller, and for the last 20 years the Yuwaalaraay woman has channelled that skill into her work as a founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins.' (Introduction)
Editor Grace Lucas-Pennington Discusses Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman Kim Wilkins (interviewer), 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: Genre Worlds : Australian Popular Fiction in the 21st Century [Interviews] 2023; This conversation took place between Grace and Kim Wilkins on 14th February, 2019.
Publisher Robert Watkins Discusses Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman Kim Wilkins (interviewer), 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: Genre Worlds : Australian Popular Fiction in the 21st Century [Interviews] 2023; This conversation took place between Robert and Kim Wilkins on 19th February, 2019.
Authors Share Culture through Love of Writing 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 22 May no. 701 2019; (p. 39)

'Wulli Wuilli woman Lisa Fuller's passion for writing has brought her recognition  through being awarded on of the 2019 black&write! Fellowships.'
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