Alison Whittaker

Ellen van Neerven's award-winning collection of stories was inspired by the elements and is exceptionally imaginative and varied. In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven leads readers on a journey that is mythical, mystical, and still achingly real. Over three parts, van Neerven takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In Heat, we meet several...

WINNER - 2019 Queensland Literary Awards (Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection) WINNER - 2019 Mascara Avant-Garde Literary Award SHORTLISTED - 2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Poetry) SHORTLISTED - 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (Indigenous Writing Prize) SHORTLISTED - 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year LONGLISTED - 2019 Australian Literature Society...

Curated and introduced by Alison Whittaker, Fire Front is a ground-breaking anthology of First Nations poetry showcasing some of the brightest new stars, as well as leading Aboriginal writers and poets including Bruce Pascoe, Ali Cobby Eckermann and Tony Birch. This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of...

Winner of the 2015 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship: a partnership between the State Library of Queensland's black&write! Indigenous Writing and Editing Project and Magabala Books. From a remarkable new voice in Indigenous writing comes this highly original collection of poems bristling with stunning imagery and gritty textures. At times sensual, always potent, Lemons in the Chicken Wire delivers a collage...