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CryBaby by first-time author Mabel Gibson has been named Book of the Year at the 2026 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, taking out the program's highest honour at an awards ceremony at the Sta...
A Piece of Red Cloth, a novel based on the oral history of Yolŋu people from north-east Arnhem Land, has won the best fiction prize at this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
A new First Nations comic anthology is putting Blak stories, artists and heroes into the hands of young readers, with an ambitious distribution strategy designed to reach Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Mount Gambier Library is set to welcome Indigenous author Warren Rankine for an evening discussing his memoir, Fifteen Feet Tall: From Abandonment to Belonging, this month.
Newly updated Yarning Strong resources are on their way to classrooms around Australia this month, helping primary teachers bring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, histories and contempora...
Seven books published by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation have been selected for the inaugural IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages.
A cross-cultural storytelling project facilitated by the University of Newcastle is amplifying the voices of climate-facing communities and deepening understanding of the environmental and cultural si...
The 2026 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards shortlist was announced this week, recognising more than thirty authors and offering a snapshot of the voices shaping literature from Western Australi...
The Indigenous Storytellers Scholarship, an initiative by Façon Australia, has announced Jasmine Christie as the recipient of the 2026 $10,000 scholarship.
Wakka Wakka and Kaanju author Allison Rocca is bringing First Nations storytelling to young readers through her debut middle-grade novel Joey and the Junjardy.
Australian Catholic University PhD student Melissa 'Mary' O'Neill grew up in a family of story tellers. She remembers how her nan would spin yarns about the strawberries she would grow for the snake i...
Loki Liddle, proud Jabirr Jabirr poet and musician, has released his debut book - Damn Good Television - through Indigenous publisher Magabala Books.
Nine emerging Indigenous creatives from across New South Wales have been selected as finalists in the 2026 Indigenous Storytellers Scholarship, gaining the opportunity to work alongside some of Austra...