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Westerly 61.1 is a celebration of Indigenous writing and culture. Guest edited by writer and researcher Stephen Kinnane, it features some of Australia’s most influential and award-winning Indigenous writers and artists.
As guest editor, Stephen describes the issue as a “testament to the authors, both those solicited and those who submitted, who have put hours of work into their pieces”. Within, you will find the work of 51 writers from right across the country, notably including Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, Melissa Lucashenko, Bruce Pascoe and Wayne Barker, as well as emerging authors Paul Collis and Alison Whittaker, artwork by celebrated Noongar artist Bella Kelly, and pieces from the Berndt Museum collection.
Contents:
Poetry
Edwin Lee Mulligan
Weather Patterns, Jimadilung
Alison Whittaker
The Sapling Barricades Of Trugernanner
Jannali Jones
Past Tense
Stuart Cooke
Convergence
Philip Hall
Dawn Song
Brendan Ryan
Lajamanu
Marian De Saxe
Yam Country: for Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Marian De Saxe
In Gondwanaland
Amy Hilhorst
Rottnest
Kevin Gillam
feeding Lake Disappointment
Fiction
Tara June Winch
The Yield
Melissa Lucashenko
My Dear Child
Michalia Arathimos
The Conservation of the Stars
Katinka Smit
Behind the Line
Warwick Newnham
‘Jabbin Jabbin Kirroo Ka’
Creative Non-Fiction
Kevin Brophy
Introduction to Mulan
Stevie Micheal Hill-Kopp Junior
My Life in Mulan
Dermott Neach
My First Game on Mulan Oval
Doris Eaton, Lekkie Hopkins and Ann Ingamells
Giveaway
Dr Cheryl Kickett-Turner
Wind Spirit: Nanna’s Legacy
Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
Truth and Consequence
Tom Stephens
Naming Rights
Caitlin Prince
Tomorrow, another will come
Kim Scott
Both Hands Full
Graham Akhurst
Clutching the Void
Paul Collis
Walking in Old Shoes
Paul Collis
Remembering Artists
Essays
Rachael Swain and Dalisa Pigram
Calling a Warning
Cheryl Narkle, Caroline Narkle and Annete Davis
Bella Kelly
Lily Bennion
Threaded Djon Djon figures from Goulburn Island
Moira De Angelis
A Story About Two Feather Baskets
Natalie Hewlett
Pwoja Jilamara
Margaret Nadebaum
Dilly Bag and Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land
Marian De Saxe
Yam Country: for Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Vanessa Wiggin
Bike and Rider
Eve Chaloupka
Empty Vessels
Sandy Toussaint
A Mix of Emotion
Brenda L Croft
Retrac(k)ing country and (s)kin: walking the Wave Hill Walk Off Track (and other sites of cultural contestation)
Elfie Shiosaki
Writing from the Heart
Clint Bracknell
Singing Back to the Archive
Sandra Phillips and Alison Ravenscroft
From the Earth Out: word, image, sound, object, body, country
Steve Kinnane in conversation with Melissa Lucashenko, Bruce Pascoe and Wayne Barker
Stories from the Front
Jacqueline Wright
Unburdening the World: Breaking the Cycle of the Perpetual Single Story
Karen Atkinson
Threshold: Reconfiguring the Past in ‘That Deadman Dance’
Pat Lowe
Two Sisters revisited
Reviews
Danielle Binks
A Review of ‘The Intervention: An Anthology’
Phillip Hall
A Review of Olive Knight, ‘The Bauhinia Tree: The Life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight’