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NSW literary awards

Indigenous Writers’ Prize 2025 Shortlisted

Judges’ Comments

When the World Was Soft brings Yindjibarndi creation stories to the page in a way that honours both tradition and innovation. These are stories from a strong Law area in the Pilbara, where the right way to tell, share and hold stories has been carefully considered. Told through the collective voice of the Juluwarlu Group Aboriginal Corporation, the language moves between poetic cadence and sharp clarity, holding on to the rhythms of oral storytelling while making space for readers unfamiliar with its forms. 

The graphic novel format works as an extension of how these stories have always been told — layered, dynamic and deeply relational. Conversations shift across time, moving between human and more-than human voices, reinforcing that creation stories are not distant myths but part of the present. Rather than translating these stories into a Western literary mould, the book shapes itself around the cultural, linguistic and philosophical frameworks from which they emerge.

KJ 108

Kyoto Journal 108 Fluidity 2 out soon.

Kitty @ 50, OG Mario’s vertical challenge – and many more erudite and not so explorations from culture and society past and present..
As always a visual thought-provoking deep dive.

elemental hanga

Print series based on gorinto elements of earth, water, fire, air and sprit, with the actual stupa representing the latter. Carved from sumi covered blocks with no forethought to the image; in a sense releasing what is in the wood..