Indigenous Futurisms
ABOUT THE SHOW
Terra Nullius declared we have no past. The dying race trope pretended we have no future. Indigenous Futurisms calls time on both. These authors write us back into the past and the future, where we have always been and always will be.
PART OF BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dr Allanah Hunt is a proud queer Barkindji and Malyangapa woman who is passionate about all things writing and reading. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, which comprised of writing a fan fiction novel set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, creating an original Aboriginal female superhero. She has taught Editing & Publishing at QUT, worked as an editor with the black&write! Project and is currently a Lecturer and Researcher through the ATSIS Unit at the University of Queensland. Her main research interests are in Blak deaths in custody, ownership of women’s bodies, Indigi-Futursim, First Nations storytelling, fan fiction and affective learning. As a creative writer, she enjoys playing in a lot of different genres, from Young Adult novels and science fiction to literary short stories about Indigenous history and mental health. Her first novel, Forever and Ever, a YA, is due to be released next February/March, by Text Publishing.
Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer, critic and editor. Mykaela’s debut speculative fiction collection Always Will Be (UQP 2024) won the David Unaipon Award, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers’ Prize and longlisted for The Stella Prize. Mykaela edited This All Come Back Now (UQP 2022), the world’s first anthology of blackfella spec fic, which won an Aurealis Award. Mykaela has won other prizes for fiction, poetry, essay writing and research, including the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize. Mykaela is a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University researching First Nations speculative fiction. Mykaela worked in Aboriginal education in various capacities from 2003 to 2023, and has been teaching at the tertiary level since 2012. Her research explores her people’s past, present and future.
John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. His work has been published in Overland, Voiceworks, Meanjin and the anthology This All Come Back Now. He was the winner of the 2020 Boundless Mentorship and the runner-up for the 2018 Nakata Brophy Prize.
Sharlene Allsopp was born on Bundjalung Country into the Olive mob. She has been published widely, including in Griffith Review, Portside Review, and Aniko Press. She was the University of QLD’s Ford Memorial Poet of the Year in 2021. Her debut novel The Great Undoing, released with Ultimo Press, won the QLD Literary Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2024. She is currently working and studying at the University of QLD and developing her next novel. Sharlene lives in Meanjin/Brisbane with her family and her beloved doggo—Morty.
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Contains adult themes
Contains coarse language
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dr Allanah Hunt is a proud queer Barkindji and Malyangapa woman who is passionate about all things writing and reading. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, which comprised of writing a fan fiction novel set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, creating an original Aboriginal female superhero. She has taught Editing & Publishing at QUT, worked as an editor with the black&write! Project and is currently a Lecturer and Researcher through the ATSIS Unit at the University of Queensland. Her main research interests are in Blak deaths in custody, ownership of women’s bodies, Indigi-Futursim, First Nations storytelling, fan fiction and affective learning. As a creative writer, she enjoys playing in a lot of different genres, from Young Adult novels and science fiction to literary short stories about Indigenous history and mental health. Her first novel, Forever and Ever, a YA, is due to be released next February/March, by Text Publishing.
Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer, critic and editor. Mykaela’s debut speculative fiction collection Always Will Be (UQP 2024) won the David Unaipon Award, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers’ Prize and longlisted for The Stella Prize. Mykaela edited This All Come Back Now (UQP 2022), the world’s first anthology of blackfella spec fic, which won an Aurealis Award. Mykaela has won other prizes for fiction, poetry, essay writing and research, including the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize. Mykaela is a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University researching First Nations speculative fiction. Mykaela worked in Aboriginal education in various capacities from 2003 to 2023, and has been teaching at the tertiary level since 2012. Her research explores her people’s past, present and future.
John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. His work has been published in Overland, Voiceworks, Meanjin and the anthology This All Come Back Now. He was the winner of the 2020 Boundless Mentorship and the runner-up for the 2018 Nakata Brophy Prize.
Sharlene Allsopp was born on Bundjalung Country into the Olive mob. She has been published widely, including in Griffith Review, Portside Review, and Aniko Press. She was the University of QLD’s Ford Memorial Poet of the Year in 2021. Her debut novel The Great Undoing, released with Ultimo Press, won the QLD Literary Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2024. She is currently working and studying at the University of QLD and developing her next novel. Sharlene lives in Meanjin/Brisbane with her family and her beloved doggo—Morty.
