Varuna 2022 First Nations Fellowships announced

Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of its First Nations Fellowships for 2022.

The six fellowship recipients and their projects are:

• Jenny Fraser, for her narrative nonfiction manuscript ‘Jidda’
• Kalem Murray, for his crime fiction/modern fantasy/horror manuscript ‘Frayed Threads’
• Brooke Scobie, for her fantasy/speculative fiction manuscript ‘The Unwoven’
• Aunty Kerry Bulloojeeno Archibald Moran, for her narrative nonfiction manuscript ‘Our Mob: Stories from Silver City Aboriginal Reserve, Anaiwan Country’
• Neika Lehman, for their poetry manuscript ‘niyakara tibalti – dream travel’
• Luke Patterson, for his poetry manuscript ‘TEK’.

Darren Green, Sharlene Allsopp and Samantha Faulkner were also highly commended by the judges.

Each recipient receives a one-week residency at Varuna, including travel costs, and the opportunity to have a discussion with Magabala Books publisher Rachel Bin Salleh. The fellowship also includes an optional one-on-one mentoring session, group reading sessions and a publishing appraisal from Magabala.

Last year’s recipients included Lisa Fuller, Brenda Saunders, and the 2022 Victorian Prize for literature winner Veronica Gorrie. For more information about the fellowship, see the Varuna website.

Pictured: Top L–R: Brooke Scobie, Aunty Kerry Bulloojeeno Archibald Moran, Luke Patterson; bottom L–R: Kalem Murray, Neika Lehman, Jenny Fraser.

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