Back in January I reviewed two stories from Ellen van Neerven and Rafeif Ismail's anthology Unlimited futures: Speculative, visionary Blak+Black fiction for Bill's (The Australian Legend) Australian Women Writers Gen 5 Week. The stories I reviewed were the second and third in the anthology because they were the first two by Australians in it. The … Continue reading Tuesday Atzinger, The River (#Review)
AWW Gen 5 Week
Claire G. Coleman, Night bird (#Review)
Wirlomin-Noongar woman Claire G. Coleman's short story "Night bird" is the second First Nations Australia story in Ellen van Neerven and Rafeif Ismail's anthology Unlimited futures: Speculative, visionary Blak+Black fiction, the book I chose for Bill's (The Australian Legend) Australian Women Writers Gen 5 Week. The week finished officially a week ago, but I'm hoping … Continue reading Claire G. Coleman, Night bird (#Review)
Ambelin Kwaymullina, Fifteen days on Mars (#Review)
In 2014, Ambelin Kwaymullina, whose people are the Palyku of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, described herself in a Kill Your Darlings essay as writing "speculative fiction for young adults". Three years later, in the 2017 Twelfth Planet Press anthology, Mother of invention, she said that she was "a Palyku author of Indigenous Futurisms", … Continue reading Ambelin Kwaymullina, Fifteen days on Mars (#Review)
Monday musings on Australian literature: First Nations Australia speculative fiction
This post is my first contribution to Bill's (The Australian Legend) Australian Women Writers Gen 5 Week 15-22 January. Gen 5 encompasses women who have been writing from the 1990s to now. Bill argues that two major trends characterise this era: "the rise and rise of Indigenous Lit" and "writing which in earlier days would … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: First Nations Australia speculative fiction
Whispering Gums 