Participants interested in reading for diversity might like to include books from the following lists:

• Dr Anita Heiss’s 100 Black Book Challenge

• Tseen Khoo’s list of Australian authors of Diverse Heritage

• Holly at Stuffed O’s Inclusive YA: Visibility Fiction

If you know any other lists that could usefully be included here, please let us know.

Selected prize-winning female Indigenous Australian authors (in alphabetical order):

• Cleven, Vivienne. Biten’ Back. David Unaipon award winner 2000
• Behrendt, Larissa. Home. David Unaipon award winner 2001
• Doyle, Fiona. Whispers of this Wik Woman. David Unaipon award winner 2004
• Garimara, Doris Pilkington. A Stockman’s Daughter. David Unaipon award winner 1990
• Gee, Valda and Rosalie Medcalfe. The Sausage Tree. David Unaipon award winner 1994
• Hegarty, Ruth. Is that you Ruthie? David Unaipon award winner 2003
• Heiss, Anita. Not Meeting Mr Right, Deadly Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature 2007 (novel); I’m not a Racist But… (Poetry; Salt Publishing) Scanion Prize for Indigenous Publishing; Yirra and Her Deadly Dog Demon; The Macquarie Pen of Aboriginal Literature, Deadly Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature 2008 (anthology). Other published work includes: Who Am I? The Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937 historical novel;Token Koori (poetry collection). Sacred Cows (satirical social commentary); Dhuuluu-Yala (To Talk Straight) – Publishing Aboriginal Literature (non-fiction). Me and My Mum (children’s). Anita has also edited Life in Gadigal Country and Stories Without End (co-edited with Penny van Toorn).
• Hodgson, Elizabeth Eileen. Skin Painting. David Unaipon award winner 2007
• Holt, Yvette. Anonymous Premonition. David Unaipon award winner 2005
• Kennedy, Gail. Me, the Antman and Fleabag. David Unaipon award winner 2006
• Leane, Jeanine, Purple Threads. David Unaipon award winner 2010
• Munkara, Marie. Every Secret Thing. David Unaipon award winner 2008
• Watson, Nicole. The Boundary. David Unaipon award winner 2009
• Winch, Tara June. Dust on Waterglass. David Unaipon award winner 2004
• Wright, Alexis.Carpentaria. Miles Franklin Award 2006.

If you know other authors who could be included here, please leave a comment below.