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Araluen cuts ties with UQP after reports publisher will pulp picture book

Thursday, 23 April 2026    Books+Publishing
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Stella Prize-winning Goorie and Koori poet Evelyn Araluen has announced she will terminate projects and contracts she holds with University of Queensland Press (UQP), after it was reported the publisher had decided to pulp the children’s book Bila, a River Cycle by Wiradjuri writer Jazz Money and illustrator Matt Chun....

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