Westerly Issue 61.1

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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

[one_half]Edwin Lee Mulligan[/one_half][one_half_last]Weather Patterns, Jimadilung[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Alison Whittaker[/one_half][one_half_last]The Sapling Barricades Of Trugernanner[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jannali Jones[/one_half][one_half_last]Past Tense[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Stuart Cooke[/one_half][one_half_last]Convergence[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Philip Hall[/one_half][one_half_last]Dawn Song[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Brendan Ryan[/one_half][one_half_last]Lajamanu[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Marian De Saxe[/one_half][one_half_last]Yam Country: for Emily Kame Kngwarreye[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Marian De Saxe[/one_half][one_half_last]In Gondwanaland[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Amy Hilhorst[/one_half][one_half_last]Rottnest[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kevin Gillam[/one_half][one_half_last]feeding Lake Disappointment[/one_half_last]

Fiction

[one_half]Tara June Winch[/one_half][one_half_last]The Yield[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Melissa Lucashenko[/one_half][one_half_last]My Dear Child[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Michalia Arathimos[/one_half][one_half_last]The Conservation of the Stars[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Katinka Smit[/one_half][one_half_last]Behind the Line[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Warwick Newnham[/one_half][one_half_last]‘Jabbin Jabbin Kirroo Ka’[/one_half_last]

Creative Non-Fiction

[one_half]Kevin Brophy[/one_half][one_half_last]Introduction to Mulan[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Stevie Micheal Hill-Kopp Junior[/one_half][one_half_last]My Life in Mulan[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Dermott Neach[/one_half][one_half_last]My First Game on Mulan Oval[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Doris Eaton, Lekkie Hopkins and Ann Ingamells[/one_half][one_half_last]Giveaway[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Dr Cheryl Kickett-Turner[/one_half][one_half_last]Wind Spirit: Nanna’s Legacy[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik[/one_half][one_half_last]Truth and Consequence[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Tom Stephens[/one_half][one_half_last]Naming Rights[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Caitlin Prince[/one_half][one_half_last]Tomorrow, another will come[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Kim Scott[/one_half][one_half_last]Both Hands Full[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Graham Akhurst[/one_half][one_half_last]Clutching the Void[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Paul Collis[/one_half][one_half_last]Walking in Old Shoes[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Paul Collis[/one_half][one_half_last]Remembering Artists[/one_half_last]

Essays

[one_half]Rachael Swain and Dalisa Pigram[/one_half][one_half_last]Calling a Warning[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Cheryl Narkle, Caroline Narkle and Annete Davis[/one_half][one_half_last]Bella Kelly[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Lily Bennion[/one_half][one_half_last]Threaded Djon Djon figures from Goulburn Island[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Moira De Angelis[/one_half][one_half_last]A Story About Two Feather Baskets[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Natalie Hewlett[/one_half][one_half_last]Pwoja Jilamara[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Margaret Nadebaum[/one_half][one_half_last]Dilly Bag and Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Marian De Saxe[/one_half][one_half_last]Yam Country: for Emily Kame Kngwarreye[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Vanessa Wiggin[/one_half][one_half_last]Bike and Rider[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Eve Chaloupka[/one_half][one_half_last]Empty Vessels[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Sandy Toussaint[/one_half][one_half_last]A Mix of Emotion[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Brenda L Croft[/one_half][one_half_last]Retrac(k)ing country and (s)kin: walking the Wave Hill Walk Off Track (and other sites of cultural contestation)[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Elfie Shiosaki[/one_half][one_half_last]Writing from the Heart[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Clint Bracknell[/one_half][one_half_last]Singing Back to the Archive[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Sandra Phillips and Alison Ravenscroft[/one_half][one_half_last]From the Earth Out: word, image, sound, object, body, country[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Steve Kinnane in conversation with Melissa Lucashenko, Bruce Pascoe and Wayne Barker[/one_half][one_half_last]Stories from the Front[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Jacqueline Wright[/one_half][one_half_last]Unburdening the World: Breaking the Cycle of the Perpetual Single Story[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Karen Atkinson[/one_half][one_half_last]Threshold: Reconfiguring the Past in ‘That Deadman Dance’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Pat Lowe[/one_half][one_half_last]Two Sisters revisited[/one_half_last]

Reviews

[one_half]Danielle Binks[/one_half][one_half_last]A Review of ‘The Intervention: An Anthology’[/one_half_last]
[one_half]Phillip Hall[/one_half][one_half_last]A Review of Olive Knight, ‘The Bauhinia Tree: The Life of Kankawa Nagarra Olive Knight’[/one_half_last]

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