Indigenous Literature
Wilman, Ballardong Noongar author Isobel Bevis has won the Picture Fiction category at the Wilderness Society's Karajia Award for Children's Literature.
A groundbreaking new collection of essays which transforms the narrative of what First Nations writing can look like has been released. Edited by Jeanine Leane and Ellen van Neerven, Shapeshifting is...
Indigenous literature is growing at an amazing rate. From Alexis Wright's Stella and Miles Franklin prize double to a series of wonderful children's books examining language, history and culture on Co...
Dual-language children's book Nedingar: Ancestors has been recognised for the third time this award season; nominated for the Speech Pathology Australia's Book of the Year in the Aboriginal and Torres...
The Wilderness Society's shortlists for the Karajia and Environment Awards for Children's Literature were announced last month, with the Karajia Award, launched in 2022, honouring First Nations storyt...
Proud Wiradyuri yinaa woman Amara Barnes said she wanted to join the Indigenous Literacy Foundation board because First Nations children seeing their language in books was critical to self-determinati...
A Victorian bookshop owner has been forced to apologise after a series of remarks, including calling for more books with "just white kids on the cover", as well as claiming the chain would stop stocki...
Aboriginal Studies Press, the publishing arm of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, has featured a diverse range of texts to celebrate NAIDOC week.
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