EDITING THE WORK OF WRITERS FROM FIRST NATIONS AND PEOPLE OF COLOUR: A REP INITIATIVE DAY ONE - MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2020 (all times AEDT)
9:30–9.55am 11:05–11.40am Welcome to Country Aunty Ann Weldon Agents Acquiring New Seminar Outline Voices Dr Paula Abood & Hannah Grace Heifetz, Donnelly, DARTS Left Bank Literary
9.55–10.20am 11.40am–12noon Short break Rethinking Diversity in Editing and Publishing Interlude: Teela Reid and Part 1 Merinda Dutton, Founders, Blackfulla Book Club
10.20–10.55am 12.10–12.45pm On Cultural Consultations On a First Nations and Protocols Editor/Author Relationship Dr Terri Janke, Solicitor Ellen van Neerven and Director, Terri Janke & Jeanine Leane Company Pty Ltd.
Interlude: Bilal Hafda, 12.45–1.00pm Storyteller-in-Chief, Story Factory Conclusion EDITING THE WORK OF WRITERS FROM FIRST NATIONS AND PEOPLE OF COLOUR: A REP INITIATIVE DAY TWO - TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER 2020 (all times AEDT)
9:30–9.45am 11.05–11.40am Welcome and Outline It's hard to be what you Dr Paula Abood and Hannah can't see: Diversity within Donnelly, DARTS Australian Publishing Radhiah Chowdhury, 9.45–10.20am 2019–2020 Beatrice Davis On a Culturally Diverse Editorial Fellow Editor/Author 11.40am–12noon Relationship Short break Zoya Patel and Robert Watkins
Interlude: Eleanor Jackson, Interlude: Johanna Bell Peril Magazine and Erica Wagner, Octopus Story Camp 12.10–12.35pm Rethinking Diversity in Editing 10.30–11.05am and Publishing in Australia Editing Literary Part 2 Magazines: A First Nations Editor/Author Interlude: Adalya Nash Hussein, Relationship Voiceworks Evelyn Araluen, Co-Editor Overland and Bridget Caldwell- 12.45–1.00pm Bright, The Lifted Brow Call To Action EDITING THE WORK OF WRITERS FROM FIRST NATIONS AND PEOPLE OF COLOUR: A REP INITIATIVE INTRODUCING OUR CO-FACILITATORS
DR PAULA ABOOD is a writer, community cultural worker, playwright and educator based in Sydney. She has worked with diverse refugee and immigrant communities for over three decades. She has edited and produced publications including On Being (forthcoming), The Book of African Australian Stories (2006), Poetry Across Rooftops: Contemporary Writings by Afghan Women (2006), The Book of the Living: Sierra Leonean Women Tell their Stories (2006), Bread and Other Stories (2001) and Waiting in Space: an Anthology of New Writing (1998) and was a founding member of the literary project Xtext Journal (1996/1997).
Paula’s productions include The Cartographer’s Curse (2016), Auburn Cartographies of Diversity (2016), Sacred Women’s Voices (2013 /2011), Hurriya and Her Sisters (2009), and Of Middle Eastern Appearance (2001). Her writing has been published in anthologies and journals, most recently in Arab Australian Other: Stories on Race and Identity (2019). Paula was awarded the 2007 Western Sydney Artists’ Fellowship for the blogging project Race and the City and was the 2013 recipient of the Australia Council’s Ros Bower Award for lifetime achievement in community cultural practice. She has developed training modules for certificate-level courses using human-rights approaches across sectors and education settings, including online diversity and equity training for TAFE NSW staff in 2018. Paula is lead educator on the Victorian-based Fair Play Program with Diversity Arts Australia (2019–2021). She has a PhD from UNSW in Cultural Studies (2007) and is currently working on a monograph on the cultural life of community as part of an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship.
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HANNAH DONNELLY is an award-winning Wiradjuri writer, producer and curator interested in Indigenous futures, speculative fiction and responses to climate trauma. She is currently producer of First Nations Programs at Information + Cultural Exchange in Parramatta and chief editor of BLACKLIGHT, a new Sweatshop anthology of First Nations storytelling.
Hannah was recently appointed to the curatorium for the 23rd Biennale of Sydney to be presented in 2022. Winner of the National Indigenous Story Award in 2018, her recent publications include essays and poetry in After Australia, Sovereign Words: Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism, Artlink, Acclaim, NITV, Writers Victoria and Cordite Poetry Review. EDITING THE WORK OF WRITERS FROM FIRST NATIONS AND PEOPLE OF COLOUR: A REP INITIATIVE INTRODUCING OUR SPEAKERS
ON CULTURAL CONSULTATION AND PROTOCOLS – Dr Terri Janke
DR TERRI JANKE is a Wuthathi/Meriam woman and an international authority on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), known for innovating pathways between the non-Indigenous business sector and Indigenous people in business. As the owner and Solicitor Director of Terri Janke and Company, Terri leads a team of lawyers who provide advice on legal matters including intellectual property, Indigenous protocols, business law and governance. Terri Janke and Company has written leading ICIP Protocols and models for various sectors including the arts, museums, archives, film, radio and business. Terri is also a valued mentor, mediator and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Terri has received numerous awards including NAIDOC Person of the Year 2011, Community Lawyer of the Year 2019 (NSW Women Lawyers) and Indigenous Business Leader of the Year 2019 (My Business Awards).
Her novel Butterfly Song was published by Penguin in 2005. Her book True Tracks, Working with Indigenous Knowledge and Culture will be published in 2021 by NewSouth Press.
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STORY FACTORY – Bilal Hafda
BILAL HAFDA runs creative writing workshops all across NSW. He works with schools and community groups full-time, at the Story Factory, facilitating and designing workshops to assist young writers. He’s also a spoken-word artist. He’s performed at TEDx in Sydney, and has featured at a number of slams, including the Bankstown Poetry Slam, and the Enough Said Poetry Slam in Wollongong.
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AGENTS ACQUIRING NEW VOICES – Grace Heifetz
GRACE HEIFETZ grew up between Sydney and the Blue Mountains and has lived in London and San Francisco. She returned to Australia in 2002 and began working at Curtis Brown where she worked in a number of roles until mid-2019. Her clients include authors such as Chris Hammer, Bri Lee, Emily Maguire and Nakkiah Lui.
Grace is also on the board on the Blue Mountains Writers Festival and the National Young Writers’ Festival. She and Gaby Naher established Left Bank Literary as an agency in 2019. ‘The name references the creative environment that blossomed in ‘the city of light’ nearly a century ago. These writers were a vital force in an era of rising conservatism and fascism. ‘We have created Left Bank Literary to provide a home for the fertile ideas of our clients and to ensure literature continues to contribute to the most important conversations of the world.’
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BLACKFULLA BOOK CLUB – Teela Reid
TEELA REID is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman and lawyer. She was born and raised in Gilgandra, NSW and comes from a family of advocates in the NSW Land rights movement. Teela was involved as a working group leader on s 51(xxvi) in the Constitutional dialogue process that culminated in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Previously, Teela was Australia’s Female Indigenous Youth Delegate to the United Nations Permanent Forum in New York that inspired her journey to become a lawyer. Teela completed her postgraduate Juris Doctor from UNSW Law Sydney and was named on the UNSW Law Deans Women of Excellence List. Upon graduation, Teela was appointed tipstaff to her Honour Justice Lucy McCallum in the NSW Supreme Court. Teela was the first Aboriginal person to be elected on the UNSW Law Society as Vice-President (Social Justice), where she was the founding director of the UNSW Law First Peoples Moot. She was also the Inaugural recipient of the NSW Indigenous Barristers Trust award. In 2017, Teela was selected to attend Harvard University as a global Emerging Leader. In 2020, Teela May Reid has been awarded the Daisy Utemorrah Award at the WA Premier’s Book Awards for her unpublished manuscript “Our Matriarchs Matter”. She co-founded Blackfulla Book Club with Merinda Dutton in April 2020.
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BLACKFULLA BOOK CLUB – Merinda Dutton
MERINDA DUTTON is a proud Gumbaynggirr and Barkindji woman from the rural community of Grafton, NSW. Merinda developed a strong passion for law and social justice during her early teenage years. During her first year at UNSW, studying for a Bachelor of Jurisprudence/Bachelor of Laws double degree, Merinda was awarded the Landon-Smith Family Scholarship. The following year, she became a recipient of the Paul Doneley Memorial Scholarship, set up to support First Nations Australians undertaking law studies at the University. She undertook student internships at Allens, the Office of the Registrar of the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, and the Native Title Service Provider for Aboriginal Traditional Owners (NTSCORP) to supplement her scholarship income. Merinda graduated in 2013 and is an Acting Senior Solicitor at the Civil Law Service for Aboriginal Communities at Legal Aid NSW. Based in Lismore, she joined the organisation in 2014 and delivers advice and casework assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote and regional communities throughout NSW, as well as to First Nations women in custody. Merinda was named the Attorney-General Department’s 2019 National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year at the National Indigenous Legal Conference in Darwin. She co-founded Blackfulla Book Club with Teela Reid in April 2020.
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ON A FIRST NATIONS EDITOR/AUTHOR RELATIONSHIP – Ellen van Neerven
ELLEN VAN NEERVEN (they/them) is an award- winning author, editor and educator of Mununjali (Yugambeh language group) and Dutch heritage. They write fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, and play football on unceded Turrbal and Yuggera land. van Neerven’s first book, Heat and Light (UQP, 2014), a novel-in- stories, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers Prize. van Neerven’s poetry collection Comfort Food (UQP, 2016) won the Tina Kane Emergent Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize. Throat (UQP, 2020), van Neerven’s latest poetry collection, and recipient of the inaugural Quentin Bryce Award, is now available. They are the editor of three collections, including the recent Homeland Calling: Words from a New Generation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voices and are co- editing an upcoming collection of Blak + Black Visionary and Speculative fiction Unlimited Futures with Sudanese multilingual writer Rafeif Ismail. ‘SWIM’, a performance piece about water sovereignty and gender identity, featured at the Yellamundie First Peoples Playwriting Festival in Sydney in January 2019, and the QPAC Sparks program in November 2019.
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ON A FIRST NATIONS EDITOR/AUTHOR RELATIONSHIP – Jeanine Leane
JEANINE LEANE is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming: A.D. 1887- 1961 (2010, Presspress) won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, 2010 and her first novel, Purple Threads (UQP), won the David Unaipon Award for an unpublished Indigenous writer in 2010. Her poetry and short stories have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation, The Journal for the Association European Studies of Australia, Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland and the Australian Book Review. Jeanine has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative non- fiction. Jeanine was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, and she has won the Oodgeroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry twice (2017 & 2019). Her second volume of poetry, Walk Back Over was released in 2018 by Cordite Press. She was the 2019 recipient of the Red Room Poetry Fellowship for her project called Voicing the Unsettled Space: Rewriting the Colonial Mythscape. Jeanine teaches Creative Writing and Aboriginal Literature at the University of Melbourne and is the recipient of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Fellowship for a project called ‘Aboriginal Writing: Shaping the literary and cultural history of Australia, since 1988’ (2014- 2018); and a second ARC grant that looks at Indigenous Storytelling and the Archive 2020-2024). In 2020 Jeanine edited Guwayu – for all times – a collection of First Nations Poetry commissioned by Red Room Poetry and published by Magabala Books.
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ON A CULTURALLY DIVERSE EDITOR/AUTHOR RELATIONSHIP – Zoya Patel & Robert Watkins
ZOYA PATEL is the award-winning author of No Country Woman, a memoir of race, religion and feminism. She is also the founder of feminist literary organisation, Feminartsy and co-host of the Margin Notes podcast alongside Yen Eriksen. Zoya has won numerous awards for her writing and editing, and has been published widely, including in The Guardian, the Australian Financial Review, ABC, SBS, Junkee, Overland, Meanjin, Sydney Morning Herald and more. She was a 2020 judge for the Stella Prize, and is the Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize Judging Panel. Zoya is also on the Board of the ACT Writers Centre.
https://www.zoya-patel.com/
ROBERT WATKINS is the Publishing Director of Ultimo Press - Australia’s newest independent publisher, and has been working in the Australian book industry for over 20 years. Throughout his career he’s worked across sales, marketing and publicity – which has given him a wide perspective on what Australian readers are looking for. Robert has published award- winning authors Maxine Beneba Clarke, Inga Simpson, Dr Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Claire G Coleman and Peter Polites, to name just a few.
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OCTOPUS STORY CAMP – Erica Wagner
ERICA WAGNER is an artist and award-winning editor and publisher of books for children and young adults. She travelled to the US on the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship in 1999, was awarded the Dromkeen Medal in 2017 and received the Australian Book Industry’s Pixie O’Harris Award for outstanding achievement in the creation of Australian children's books in 2020. She has worked for publishers large and small, including ten years with Penguin Australia, a year starting a children’s list for Duffy & Snellgrove, and twenty years with Allen & Unwin. Co-director of the micro graphic novel publishing house, Twelve Panels Press, Erica is now a freelance publishing consultant with a special interest in collaborative book development. In 2019, Erica and Johanna Bell facilitated the successful Octopus Story Camp in Darwin for Top End writers and artists.
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OCTOPUS STORY CAMP – Johanna Bell
JOHANNA BELL is an author, community arts worker and Churchill Fellow. She lives in Darwin where she runs StoryProjects, a creative production house that elevates new voices and strengthens communities through storytelling. Her most recent project, BIRDS EYE VIEW, a podcast created with women in the Darwin Prison, was nominated for an NT Media Award, a Walkley Award in Journalism and Australian Podcast of the Year. In her writing life, Johanna creates picture books with Tennant Creek artist Dion Beasley. Their second book, Go Home Cheeky Animals! won the 2017 CBCA Book of the Year and they're now working on their fourth book together. Johanna has also won multiple literary awards for her poetry and short fiction and her writing is published in Australian Poetry, Overland, Meanjin, Griffith Review and Borderlands.
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EVELYN ARALUEN is Co-Editor of Overland, as well as a poet, educator and researcher working with Indigenous literatures at the University of Sydney. Her work has won the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship. Her debut poetry and essay collection Dropbear is forthcoming with the University of Queensland Press. Born, raised, and writing in Dharug country, she is a Bundjalung descendant.
https://overland.org.au/author/evelyn-araluen/
BRIDGET CALDWELL-BRIGHT is a Jingili and Mudburra writer and freelance editor based in Melbourne. She has worked on projects with Scribe, Allen & Unwin, Hardie Grant, Mascara Literary Review and The Lifted Brow. She was also previously co-editor for Archer Magazines First Nations Edition and managing editor for Blak Brow, a Black Women’s Collective edition of The Lifted Brow.
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‘IT’S HARD TO BE WHAT YOU CAN’T SEE: DIVERSITY WITHIN AUSTRALIAN PUBLISHING’: BEATRICE DAVIS EDITORIAL FELLOWSHIP REPORT 2020
RADHIAH CHOWDHURY has worked as a children’s editor with Scholastic Australia, Allen & Unwin and Giramondo, before joining the Penguin Random House Australia audio program in 2019.
She is currently a commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia, with a focus on authors from underrepresented backgrounds and inclusive publishing. Radhiah is also the recipient of the 2019-2020 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship. Her research project, ‘It’s hard to be what you can’t see: Diversity Within Australian Publishing’, is now available.
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PERIL MAGAZINE – Eleanor Jackson
ELEANOR JACKSON is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and community radio broadcaster. She is the author of A Leaving (Vagabond Press) and her live album, One Night Wonders, is produced by Going Down Swinging. Eleanor is committed to developing and hosting events and experiences that showcase the diversity of both poetic language and writers and audiences. She is the producer of the Melbourne Poetry Map and a former Editor in Chief of Peril Magazine and former Board Member of Queensland Poetry Festival. She is currently Chair of Peril Magazine and Vice-Chair of The Stella Prize. In 2020, Eleanor became one of the judges for Poetry Object Australia.
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VOICEWORKS – Adalya Nash Hussein
ADALYA NASH HUSSEIN is a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, Ibis House, Meanjin and Going Down Swinging. She has been an Emerging Writers’ Festival Melbourne Recital Centre Writer in Residence, a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, and shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. She is the editor of Voiceworks and a co-editor at Liminal.
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REQUIRED READING
Chowdhury, Radhiah ‘It’s hard to be what you can’t see: Diversity Within Australian Publishing’ Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship Report, 2020 https://www.publishers.asn.au/news/bdef-report-offers-australian-publishing- pathways-to-inclusivity
UNSW New South Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) Protocol Created by Terri Janke and Company. [Excerpt provided with permission.]
ADDITIONAL READING
ARTICLES Bell, Johanna ‘An Octopus, an Expert and a Room Full of Writers: How to Combat Geographic Privilege’ Imprint 2019, pp 9–11.
Birch, Tony ‘Too Many Australians Remain Ignorant of Aboriginal Writing’ The Guardian 31 August 2013
Boehme, Jacob ‘Keynote Address at Australian Performing Arts Market 2018’ Australian Government Indigenous Languages and Arts
Bradley, John, Scott, Kim, and Munkara, Marie ‘Language and Politics in Indigenous Writing’ Overland 2005, Summer 2011 Cañas , Tania ‘Diversity Is a White Word’ Arts Hub Monday 9 January 2017 Case, Jo ‘ “Getting it Right”: Anita Heiss on Indigenous Characters’ The Wheeler Centre 5 November 2014 ‘Case-Study: Interstate Collaborations Octopus a Story Camp’ in Creative Industries Strategy NT 2020–2024. Clark, Maxine Beneba ‘So Many Very Hungry Writers’ Overland 16 September 2015 Diversity Arts Australia. (2019) Shifting the Balance: Cultural Diversity in Leadership Within the Australian Arts, Screen and Creative Sectors Diversity in Publishing Report ‘Ethical Publishing Guidelines’ AIATSIS Grant, Colin ‘Claudia Rankine and the Construction of Whiteness’ New Statesman 14 October 2020 Ibrahim, Hella ‘We Need Diverse Editors’ Djed Press 29 January 2018 Ibrahim, Hella ‘First Nations and POC Writers Count’ Djed Press 13 June 2019 Kembrey, Melanie ‘Nakkiah Lui Launches Publishing Imprint Joan’ Sydney Morning Herald 21 August 2020 Kon-you, Natalie ‘In the Skin of the Other: Diversity and the Australian Publishing Industry’ TEXT Special Issue 13, October 2018 Koorified Aboriginal Communication and Well-Being Editor: Karen Adams. [This document was developed through a partnership between The School of Nursing and Midwifery at LaTrobe University and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation] (VACCHO), 2014. Kwaymullina, Ambelin’ We Need Diverse Books Because’: An Indigenous Perspective on Diversity in Young Adult and Children’s Literature in Australia’ The Wheeler Centre Law, Benjamin ‘Stories from the Margins’ 2010 Australian Society of Authors Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture presented on November 14 Australian Society of Authors 25 November 2019 Le, Shirley ‘Australia Is at a Turning Point in the Diversity Conversation. Apologies Are No Longer Enough’ The Guardian 27 June 2020 Lucas-Pennington, Grace ‘black&write! Session at 2017 IPEd Brisbane Conference: Editing Work with Indigenous Content’ State Library of Queensland Blog 7 November 2017 Malik, Sarah ‘Melissa Lucashenko: “Write What Your Truth Is” ’ SBS 21 August 2020 Pham, Camha ‘Where Are All the Editors of Colour?’ Kill Your Darlings 28 August 2020 ‘Protocols for Using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts’ Australia Council for the Arts ‘Protocols for Working with Indigenous Artists’ Australia Council for the Arts Scott, Kim ‘Racism Burns Australia Like Pox and Plague: We’re Not All in This Together’ (Fire, Flood and Plague – Essays about 2020) The Guardian 19 August 2020. Sullivan, Veronica ‘Confronting Multiplicity: An Interview with Alison Whittaker’ Kill Your Darlings 29th March 2016 ‘The Coconut Children: Vivian Pham in Conversation with Catherine Keenan’ (Story Factory) Conversations from Byron, Byron Bay Writers Festival Winch, Tara June ‘Speaking for Ourselves: 1997–2007’ A Special Series in Celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Language’ Griffith Review 2019 Wright, Alexis. ‘On Writing Carpentaria’ HEAT 13, New Series (2007): 79–95. Yunkaporta, Tyson ‘Our Ways of Learning in Aboriginal Languages’ in Yunkaporta, Tyson Aboriginal pedagogies at the cultural interface. PhD thesis, James Cook University; and in J. Hobson, K. Lowe, S. Poetsch, & M. Walsh (Eds.), Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and practice in the revitalisation of Australia’s Indigenous languages Sydney University Press, 2009, pp 37-49. Yussuf, Ahmed ‘In the Belly of the Trojan Horse’ Going Down Swinging #40 BOOKS Behrendt, Larissa Indigenous Australia for Dummies Wiley, 2012. Haviland, Maya Side by Side Community Art and the Challenge of Co-Creativity NY: Routledge, 2017. Hooks, Bell Black Looks: Race and Representation South End Press, 1992. Pascoe, Bruce Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture Magabala Books, 2018, 2014. Pascoe, Bruce The Little Red Yellow Black Book: An Introduction to Indigenous Australia. 4th Edition. Aboriginal Studies Press, 2018, 1994. Smith, Claire Country, Kin and Culture: Survival of an Australian Aboriginal Community Wakefield Press, 2004. The Relationship Is the Project: Working with Communities Co-edited by Jade Lillie, Kate Larsen, Cara Kirkwood and Jax Jacki Brown. Brow Books, 2020. CREATIVE WORKS BY SPEAKERS Araluen, Evelyn Dropbear University of Queensland Press, 2021 [forthcoming]. Bell, Johanna and Beesley, Dion Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back Allen & Unwin, 2019. Chowdhury, Radhiah Jumble Scholastic Australia, 2019. Jackson, Eleanor A Leaving Vagabond Press, 2018. Janke, Terri Butterfly Song Penguin, 2005. Leane, Jeanine Purple Threads University of Queensland Press, 2011. Patel, Zoya No Country Woman Hachette, 2018. Van Neerven, Ellen Throat University of Queensland Press, 2020. BOOKS WHICH HAVE RESULTED FROM THE OCTOPUS PROJECT Rogers, Karen Main Abija: My Grandad by Karen Rogers Allen & Unwin, March 2021 [forthcoming]. Tootell, Mandy Yellow Truck Road Train, Allen & Unwin, 2020.