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Our Worlds, Our Way
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Sun 26 Oct 10:00 AM
Theatre | National Library of Australia
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
Join this exciting First Nations panel to hear how each author feels their writing is shaped by connections to culture and Country. Across genres, from poetry to YA and younger children's novels, how do Indigenous world views emerge? As First Nations writing and publishing flourishes in Australia, there is a chance to look across forms, learn and delight in connection and creativity. Moderated by Ballardong Noongar educator, writer and editor, and co-curator of Rivers Flow: Reflections on the Songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, Casey Mulder, this promises to be a rich exploration of First Nations writing for Australians of all ages.
Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher. Born and raised on Dharug Country and in the broader Western Sydney Black community, she now lives on Wurundjeri Country where she works as a lecturer at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, as a co-editor of Overland Literary Journal and Chairperson for the Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Her debut poetry collection, Dropbear, won the 2022 Stella Prize and the Australian Book Industry Award’s 2022 Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Premier’s awards of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Her work has also received the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Melbourne Prize Career Development Award. Her recent work is The Rot.
Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American writer working at Books+Publishing. She is the author of Moonlight and Dust and Ash Barty’s Little Ash Series. She has written for Overland, Kill Your Darlings, SBS Voices and Griffith Review.
Lisa Fuller is an Eidsvold Murri, living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands (Canberra) since 2006. She is a lecturer at the University of Canberra, an award-winning writer, editor, literary agent and mum. Lisa writes children’s literature, short stories, poems and memoir. Her picture book with Samantha Campbell, Big Big Love, recently won the 2025 ACT Literary Award for Children’s Literature (Younger readers). Lisa’s latest book, Washpool, is a middle grade fantasy written for her nieces.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.
Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher. Born and raised on Dharug Country and in the broader Western Sydney Black community, she now lives on Wurundjeri Country where she works as a lecturer at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, as a co-editor of Overland Literary Journal and Chairperson for the Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Her debut poetry collection, Dropbear, won the 2022 Stella Prize and the Australian Book Industry Award’s 2022 Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Premier’s awards of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Her work has also received the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Melbourne Prize Career Development Award. Her recent work is The Rot.
Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American writer working at Books+Publishing. She is the author of Moonlight and Dust and Ash Barty’s Little Ash Series. She has written for Overland, Kill Your Darlings, SBS Voices and Griffith Review.
Lisa Fuller is an Eidsvold Murri, living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands (Canberra) since 2006. She is a lecturer at the University of Canberra, an award-winning writer, editor, literary agent and mum. Lisa writes children’s literature, short stories, poems and memoir. Her picture book with Samantha Campbell, Big Big Love, recently won the 2025 ACT Literary Award for Children’s Literature (Younger readers). Lisa’s latest book, Washpool, is a middle grade fantasy written for her nieces.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.