Welcome to the new South Australian First Nations Writers Group website which we launched in March 2022 to help us provide up-to-date information and a space where we can provide regular updates. We’re excited about our website as a tool that job seekers, potential employers, businesses, organisations and community can stay engaged with and to keep up to date with …

If you followed the last year’s Black Lives Matter uprisings, you will have noticed the word Blak being used by writers and commentators in Australia. Perhaps you dismissed it as a spelling error, or just considered it a bit of a head-scratcher until the next curio snagged your attention. Or you might have wondered if there was some new linguistic …

Without quite knowing, I have been searching for a new word. This word needs to capture something that is sometimes like queerness but most often is not. It is a state of being that First Nations’ people who might be labeled queer, such as myself, know intimately. It is also, however, a state that is difficult to articulate in the …

We opened the year with First Words at the Adelaide Writers Festival  – an all-star poetry reading featuring leading First Nations poets from South Australia including  Mandy Brown, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Natalie Harkin, Dominic Eliseo, Steven Pappin, Cele Rowe, and MC Edoardo Crismani. Deep gratitude and appreciation for Writers SA Director Jessica Alice for her skilful support collaborative endeavours and …