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December 2017 CONTENTS EDITORIAL FIONA DORRELL impriNorthern Territory Writers’ Centrent Journal | December 2017 CONTENTS EDITORIAL FIONA DORRELL FEATURES On Sunday morning of the NT The Walpiri women’s appearance Ali Cobby Eckermann: inspiring Writers’ Festival that took place in the Festival, further recounted outsiders | Candy Royalle in Alice Springs this year, people in this issue in a transcription Imprint Those fifty words might live in gathered as Walpiri women from by Georgia Curran, alongside sentences | Beth Sometimes Yuendumu sat on the ground and alongside other strong Indigenous oiled and painted one another up in programming was easily a highlight Agustinus Wibowo: impressions of NORTHERN TERRITORY WRITERS’ CENTRE JOURNAL preparation for the launch of their for 2017. Mention should also be Alice | Dina Indrasafitri new songbook, Yurntumu-wardingki made of the sand story told in Book in a Day | Katherine Region of juju-ngaliya-kurlangu yawulyu Ngaanyatjarra by Lizzie Marrkilyi Writers (Batchelor Institute Press). There Ellis who sat regal on the red Sharing Warlpiri Women’s Yawulyu was a livestream beginning soon in ground beneath a desert sky and Songs the Gallery Room connecting the captivated her listeners. Special ABOUT BOARD OF MANAGEMENT launch to other audiences around the thanks to my colleagues Dani Imprint is a publication of the President Territory. From the sidelines, someone Powell and Shrike O’Malley for their INTERVIEWS NT Writers’ Centre. It is devoted Professor Martin Jarvis OAM (Darwin) tentatively reminded the group of time intelligence and passion in putting The Delhi Walla | Mayank Austen Soofi to NT writers and writing. Vice-president constraints; Valerie Napaljarri Martin, together this Festival. Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston (Darwin) Writing Memoir | Patti Miller in her navy beanie with the blue and Secretary & Public Officer In looking back over 2017, many EDITORIAL & PRODUCTION red pompom, took charge. ‘You can’t other books and projects deserve Michelle Coleman (Darwin) rush these things,’ she explained to the Imprint is edited and produced by Regional Vice-president INDUSTRY a mention. NTWC staff. Taking a Look at Batchelor Institute audience, ‘they have to take their own Toni Tapp-Coutts (Katherine) In this issue, Beth Sometimes Graphic design Ash Steel Press | Karen Manton time.’ ‘These’ she later added ‘are the Ordinary Members cultural procedures of our lives.’ The reflects on the little yellow shed, Printing Colemans | Michelle Christian Bok (Darwin), David Ketley Children’s Author Conference livestream was delayed. No one fussed. Apmere Angkentye-kenhe, which (Darwin), Carolyn Mison-Smith Coleman opened midyear in the centre of ABOUT NT WRITERS’ CENTRE (Darwin), Nicola Pitt (Alice Springs), Makassar Writers’ Festival | Derek Pugh In The Opposite of Glamour (Sydney Alice Springs as an interactive Fred van’t Sand (Darwin) Review of Books 2017), Delia Falconer The NT Writers’ Centre encourages How to: Submissions | Jacinta di Mase place for Arrernte language, vibrant literary activity in the Northern observes ‘I’ve started to notice, over involving talks, exchanges, and the last few years, an evangelical Territory, developing and supporting SUBSCRIBE learning activities and resources. LOCAL BOOKS tone creeping into writers’ festivals, in writers in all genres at all stages of The NT Writers’ Centre members The project was produced by Refining grief into meaning: which writers proselytize the power of their careers. We value quality NT receive all issues of Imprint. $55 Watch This Space in collaboration Kim Mahood’s ‘Position Doubtful’ literature to ‘represent complexity’ or writing as a unique component of waged/$45 unwaged per year. with Arrernte language experts. Australia’s literary wealth and recognise Kieran Finnane make us better people. As writers are Join or renew your membership at encouraged to promote ourselves as Karen Manton reports on further Indigenous writers and storytellers as a ntwriters.com.au or call 08 8941 2651 Children as Authors | Sally Bothroyd core component of this. brands, it’s too easy to pat ourselves publications by Batchelor Short Reviews on the back for simply writing, rather Institute Press. Their books As well as our ongoing member ADVERTISING than worrying about the specific work and projects push new ground services, we offer a program of For inquiries about advertising please FICTION our books can do in the world.’ in the publishing industry for workshops, opportunities and showcase multimedia, multilingual books email [email protected]. Can you hear the beating of the As a writer tracking the events across the NT including the drums? | Sylvia Purrurle Neale that might better cater to a place annual NT Writers’ Festival. Imprint is printed in good faith environmental crises of our times where many of our languages and NT Writers’ Centre staff and Falconer’s scrutiny of the business of being spoken only have a short ntwriters.com.au Board of Management accept no Australian literary culture is earnest. history of being written down responsibility for any misinformation. Between festival circuits, social media, and where oral storytelling, song STAFF The views expressed by contributors grant applications, residential retreats, and dance have traditionally been or advertisers are not necessarily marketing strategies, and increasing Executive Director vessels for culture. endorsed by the staff or board. requirements on writers to ‘promote Sally Bothroyd ourselves as brands’, Falconer asks Kieran Finnane reviews Kim Alice Springs Program Manager when ‘glamour’ became a measure of Mahood’s Position Doubtful, a Fiona Dorrell Guest Cover Artist important writing. ‘Those who have book that speaks so perceptively 2017 Festival Director Dion Beasley lives in Tennant Creek glamour,’ she writes, ‘are ‘winners’ — to the complexities of our region. Dani Powell and is well known across the Territory above the ruck, in their gilded sphere Perhaps together these works 2017 Festival Coordinator as the artist behind the T-shirt brand — while those who don’t are ‘losers’’. Shrike O’Malley Cheeky Dogs, and the picture books offer more of a pompom-beanie Go Home Cheeky Dogs, and Too The Walpiri Women’s songbook take on the ‘glamour’. Happy Many Cheeky Animals. compiles and documents ancestral reading. I look forward to what knowledge and to those involved 2018 might hold. in the production of the book, its value is absolutely clear—as Barbara Napanangka Martin told the audience ‘Old people are passing away… We don’t want to lose their deep knowledge of country and jukurrpa songs and stories.’ In the face of some Fiona Dorrell of the challenges of our times, parallel Alice Springs Program Manager concerns are shared by many of us; NT Writers’ Centre I’m reminded that our books have important work to do. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT: PROFESSOR MARTIN JARVIS OAM 2017 has been a very exciting year meant we were able to partner with for the NT Writers’ Centre, following other regional centres, and we were on from the great successes of last delighted to be able to work with Vale Alice Eather, poet year. Of particular significance was libraries and various arts centres the NT Writers’ Festival held this across the Territory and beyond, all year in Alice Springs, directed by the way to Port Augusta! Our thanks Dani Powell and themed Crossings | must go to all the organisations Iwerre-atherre. Under Dani’s direction, that helped make this feature of the the Festival team did a terrific job! It Festival a success. was wonderful to see strong turn-out Beyond the Festival there was also MY STORY IS YOUR STORY for all events, including the opening a program of many workshops ceremony held at the Olive Pink Djiya wiba yinyirra and events held right across the Botanic Garden. Ngana Maningrida yo Territory, and the Board of the NT Djiya wiba yinyirra This year there was an additional Writers’ Centre would like to take the opportunity to expand our reach opportunity to thank and congratulate People ask me for my story with a pilot livestream program. Sally Bothroyd, and her team, for their But my story is your story Professor Martin Jarvis at the 2017 Festival sessions were broadcast great work during 2017 in ensuring a My feet are in the dirt and the dirt it speaks in dust NT Writers’ Festival in Alice Springs. right around the Northern Territory. Territory-wide program. There is no and the trees they speak in leaves like the people speak in trust The experiment with the use of doubt that the NT Writers’ Centre has and the water speaks in waves and the dust is in the wind live streaming technology at the firmly established itself as supporting so the Country covers my skin and my skin covers this body Festival’s so called Satellite Sessions, the whole of the Northern Territory. And this body has a vessel in this chest that carries messages from my ancestors on what to do against a threat And these messages come to me in dreams and I’ve collected so many now they’re asking me to speak People ask me for my story But I thought my story was your story A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE: SALLY BOTHROYD When I see a map of Country, I see land, sea and family When they see a map of Country they see mining fantasies When I see the sea-bed, I see sacred sites When they see the sea-bed they see dollar signs Welcome to the second edition of The NT Writers’ Centre has continued When I see a map of exploration permit 266 Imprint – the annual journal of the to offer support via our year-round I see them trying to reduce my country into three digits NT Writers’ Centre. program, and to other literary events, including the NT Literary Awards, When I see Yirridja and Dhuwa Country, I see everything that is our Moiety 2017 has gone by fast, and it’s been a run by the Northern Territory Library, When they see Yirridja and Dhuwa Country, they see the future in the oil busy year for myself and Alice Springs and the Young Author Awards, and gas industry Program Manager Fiona Dorrell.
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