Desert Writing
Stories from country
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2016
250 pages
978-1-74258-830-8 (ISBN)
Description
In September 2013, just before the weather turned evenmore intense, a group of intrepid writers made their way tothree Australian desert settings to work with groups andindividuals wishing to write. Both Aboriginal people with aprofound connection to country and residents of morerecent arrival who had made the choice to live in remoteplaces participated in workshops. You'll read new voicesand hear perspectives on living in extreme geographicaland climactic regions in today's Australia. Workshop facilitators included Marie Munkara and KtimaHeathcote at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, AliCobby Eckermann and Lionel Fogarty in AnanguPitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in SouthAustralia and Kim Mahood and Terri-ann White in Mulan inWestern Australia.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Content
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Welcome from Terri-ann White
- Kate Fielding, Warburton Tree House
- Holly Ringland, Lost Girl of the Never Never
- Mulan, Western Australia
- Introduction: Kim Mahood
- Contributors:
- Helicopter Tjungurrayi
- Wuntupayi Jane Gimme
- Monica
- Gracie Mosquito
- Joan Marie Nagomara
- Elizabeth Noonie Nangala Lulu
- Veronica Lulu
- Karen Lulu
- Evelyn Clancy
- Leonard Boxer
- Bessie Doonday
- Shirley Yoomarie
- Wendy Chungulla
- Cathy Lee
- Imelda Gugaman
- Susan Chungulla
- Tiffany
- Moses Obah
- Littlies at Mulan School 2013:
- Talia
- Sebanna
- Tamati
- Dakota
- Dylan
- Gracie
- Tyson
- Matthius
- Diona
- Middle School children at Mulan School 2013:
- John-John
- Theo Fernandez
- Deswan Penn
- Linda
- Mikayley
- Nathaniel
- Jasmine
- Jaymin
- Arle
- Luke
- Kelty
- Dermott
- Keri
- Lukie
- Ali
- Senior School students at Mulan School 2013:
- Junior Ovi
- Emo
- Danisha
- Terrazetta
- Junior
- Junior Ovi
- Samantha Togni, On the Edge of Two Deserts
- Liz Poynton, Impressions of the Desert
- Sheryl Anderson, A Limited Wardrobe
- Pamela Brown, Life in Mulan
- Jennifer, Telephone Reception in Mulan
- Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
- Introduction: Marie Munkara
- Introduction: Ktima Heathcote
- Contributors:
- Rosemary Plummer, Tough and Rough
- John Hodgett, Storm in a Ti Cup
- Matt McKinlay, Drug of Choice, Long Way Back, This Town
- Ktima Heathcote, The Cooper Chronicles - Featherfoot
- David Curtis, Jim and Hawk
- Adrian McNamara, Rev.
- Maureen O'Keefe, The Trapper and the Insect Collector
- Anangu Pitjantatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia
- Introduction: Ali Cobby Eckermann
- Contributors:
- Ali Cobby Eckermann, Mulga Smoke
- Hilary Williams, Maralinga
- Johnny Watson, Yalata Boomerang Sign
- Kumunu Queama and Margaret May, Ooldea Story
- Mavis Wari and Jennifer Summerfield, The Bush Tobacco Story
- Sue Haseldine, Cleaning the Rockholes
- Kaya Kaya Kelly, The Fish and the Man
- Rosie Lester, Walatina poem
- Lionel G. Fogarty small trees sea inlands mobs
