About
Indigenous writers’ works are often defined in ways different to how they themselves would define them. Dreamed worlds are considered speculative, ghosts are called horror, creation stories and deities are deemed mythology. But what if these imagined worlds have already happened, or are in the process of happening? What if a ghost in a story isn’t horror at all, but normative, just a relative visiting? Why do Indigenous ontologies become relegated to a fiction of myth? Indigenous writing often defies easy categorization and challenges dominant colonial ideologies that enforce binaries onto what is real and what is speculative, on what is past, present, and future, imagining worlds that exist at all times, at once.
Join Mohawk writer Alicia Elliott and Torres Strait Islander, African American author, Jasmin McGoughey, and Bardi Jawi award-winning author, poet and illustrator Bebe Oliver as they discuss their works, dreaming worlds, and what Indigenous futurity means to them. The event will be moderated by Jessica Johns.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF).
Published by Doubleday
Published by Allen & Unwin
Published by Magabala Books
