Podcast: Mykaela Saunders on First Nations Speculative Fiction

Podcast: Mykaela Saunders on First Nations Speculative Fiction

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Mykaela Saunders on editing the first-ever anthology of First Nations speculative fiction. This All Come Back Now is out now.

About the author:

Mykaela Saunders is a Koori and Lebanese writer, teacher, community researcher and the editor of This All Come Back Now, the world’s first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction. Mykaela is a 2021 Next Chapter recipient, and has won the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the National Indigenous Story Award, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize, the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize for Nonfiction and the University of Sydney’s Sister Alison Bush Graduate Medal for Indigenous research. Of Dharug descent, and working-class and queer, Mykaela belongs to the Tweed Goori community.

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6 July 2022

Your Preview Verdict: This All Come Back Now edited by Mykaela Saunders

    Powerful First Nations Stories: Read an Extract from This All Come Back Now, Edited by Mykaela Saunders

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    25 May 2022

    Powerful First Nations Stories: Read an Extract from This All Come Back Now, Edited by Mykaela Saunders

      Incredible Speculative Fiction: Read Our Review of This All Come Back Now, Edited by Mykaela Saunders

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      23 May 2022

      Incredible Speculative Fiction: Read Our Review of This All Come Back Now, Edited by Mykaela Saunders

        Publisher details

        This All Come Back Now
        Author
        Mykaela Saunders
        Publisher
        UQP
        Genre
        Fiction

        Synopsis

        The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, ‘this all come back’: all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we’d gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us.

        Some writers summon ancestral spirits from the past, while others look straight down the barrel of potential futures, which always end up curving back around to hold us from behind. Dazzling, imaginative and unsettling, This All Come Back Now centres and celebrates communities and culture. It’s a love letter to kin and country, to memory and future-thinking.

        Mykaela Saunders
        About the author

        Mykaela Saunders

        Mykaela Saunders is a Koori and Lebanese writer, teacher, community researcher and the editor of This All Come Back Now, the world’s first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction. Mykaela is a 2021 Next Chapter recipient, and has won the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the National Indigenous Story Award, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize, the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Prize for Nonfiction and the University of Sydney's Sister Alison Bush Graduate Medal for Indigenous research. Of Dharug descent, and working-class and queer, Mykaela belongs to the Tweed Goori community.

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