Selected female award-winning Indigenous Australian authors and others who have been reviewed for the AWW challenge or who appear on Anita Heiss’s Black Book Challenge (BBC) list. Note: if we have made a wrong attribution or have ommitted an author from our database who should appear below, our apologies. Please let us know.
Click on the authors’ names to find out which of their works have been reviewed for the challenge so far.
*Denotes it hasn’t been reviewed (as of 3 Oct 2016).
** Denotes a book which hasn’t been reviewed and is on on Anita Heiss’s BBC list.
- Anderson, Tammy. I Don’t Wanna Play House.**
- Bandler, Faith.
- Bell, Jeanie. Talking About Celia.**
- Bellear, Lisa. Dreaming in Urban Areas/
- Behrendt, Larissa. David Unaipon award winner 2001 for Home.
- Boyd, Jillian.
- Brown, Hazel.
- Cameron, Patsy. Grease and Ochre.**
- Chilcott, Teagan.
- Clare, Monica. Karobran: The Story of an Aboriginal Girl.**
- Cleven, Vivienne. David Unaipon award winner 2000 for Biten’ Back.
- Cobby Eckermann, Ali.
- Coe, Mary. Windradyne: A Wiradjuri Koorie.**
- Coleman, Claire G. Terra Nullius; The Old Lie.
- Coleman, Dylan. David Unaipon award winner 2011 for Mazin Grace.
- Collard, Dot and Beryl Harp. Busted Out Laughing.**
- Corrigan, Florence.
- Douglas, Josie and Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing.**
- Doyle, Fiona. David Unaipon award winner 2004 for Whispers of this Wik Woman.*
- Duroux, Mary. Rain Flower.**
- Evans, Audrey. Many Lifetimes: A Memoir.**
- Garimara, Doris Pilkington. David Unaipon award winner 1990 for A Stockman’s Daughter.
- Gee, Valda and Rosalie Medcalfe. David Unaipon award winner 1994 for The Sausage Tree.*
- Ginibi, Ruby Langford.
- Harrison, Jane.
- Hegarty, Ruth. David Unaipon award winner 2003 for Is that you Ruthie?
- Heiss, Anita.
- Hennessy, Rachel.
- Henty-Gebert, Claire.
- Hodgson, Elizabeth. David Unaipon award winner 2007 for Skin Painting.
- Holding Up the Sky: Aboriginal Women Speak.**
- Holt, Yvette. David Unaipon award winner 2005 for Anonymous Premonition.*
- Huggins, Jackie and Rita Huggins.
- Jackson, Sarah. Tell me why.**
- Janke, Terri.
- Kartinyeri, Doris.
- Kennedy, Gail. David Unaipon award winner 2006 for Me, the Antman and Fleabag.
- Kennedy, Marnie. Born a Half-Caste.**
- Kwaymullina, Ambelin.
- Leane, Jeanine. David Unaipon award winner 2010 for Purple Threads.
- Lennon, Jessie. I’m the One Who Knows This Country.**
- Lucashenko, Melissa. Too Much Lip.
- McDonald, Connie. When You Grow Up.**
- Macquarie Pen Anthology Of Aboriginal Literature, eds. Heiss, Anita and Peter Minter.**
- Mailman, Keelen.
- Malbunka, Mary. When I was Little Like You.**
- Mallett, Molly. My Past, Their Future: Stories from Cape Barren Island.**
- Marrkilyi Ellis, Lizzie.
- Martiniello, Jennifer. The Imprint of Infinity.**
- McGee-Sippel, Lauren. Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste?**
- McPherson, Sue.
- Moreton, Romaine. Post me to the Prime Minister.**
- Morgan, Sally.
- Munkara, Marie. David Unaipon award winner 2008 for Every Secret Thing.
- Noonuccal, Oodgeroo.
- O’Brien, May and Sue Wyatt. The Legend of the Seven Sisters, a traditional Aboriginal Story from Western Australia.**
- Pilkington, Doris.
- Redd-Gilbert. Black Woman, Black Life.
- Richardson, Tamzyne.
- Sabbioni, Jennifer and Kay Schaffer and Sidionie Smith. Indigenous Australian Voices: A reader.**
- Saffioti, Trina. The Old Frangipani Tree at Flying Fish Point.**
- Sarago-Kendron. Delphine. Nanna’s Land.**
- Simon, Ella. Through My Eyes.**
- Sykes, Roberta.
- Tantjingu, Edna Williams and Eileen Wani Wingfield illustrated by Kunyi June-Anne McInerney. Down the Hole.**
- Those Who Remain Will Always Remember: An Anthology of Aboriginal Writing. Edited by Brewster, Anne, Rosemary van den Berg and Angeline O’Neill.**
- Torres, Pat. Jalygurr: Aussie Animal Rhymes.**
- Tucker, Margaret. If Everyone Cared.**
- van Neerven, Ellen. David Unaipon award winner 2013 for Heat and Light.
- Vincenti, Heather.
- Ward, Glenyse.
- Watson, Nicole. David Unaipon award winner 2009 for The Boundary.
- West, Isa. Pride Against Prejudice: Reminiscences Of A Tasmanian Aborigine.**
- Winch, Tara June. David Unaipon award winner 2004 for Dust on Waterglass.
- Williams, Margaret. Ngay Janijirr Ngank: This is My Word.**
- Wirrer-George, Fiona Oochunyung
- Wright, Alexis. Miles Franklin Award 2006 for Carpentaria.
- Wright, Edie. Full Circle.**
- Wymarra, Elizabeth and Wandihnu. Wandihnu and the Dugong.**
- Yalata and Oak Valley Communities (with Christobel Mattingly)
If you know other authors who could be included here, please leave a comment in the contact form below.
You might also want to read Ambelin Kwaymullina’s guest post for AWW, which includes recommendations of five books by Indigenous women writers.
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