![]() ![]() Her latest novel, Mullumbimby (UQP, 2013), won the Queensland Literary Award for fiction, was shortlisted for 2014 Kibble Literary Award and 2013 Good Reading Magazine Top Fiction Read, and was longlisted for 2014 Stella Prize and 2014 Mile Franklin Literary Award. In 2002 her fourth book Too Flash was launched by Jukurrpa Books, and Uptown Girl was published by UQP in the same year. Hard Yards was published in 1999 and shortlisted in the 2002 Courier-Mail Best Book Award. ![]() Her second book Killing Darcy won the Children’s Book Council Award and the Royal Blind Society’s Talking Book Award for young readers. Her first book Steam Pigs won the 1998 Dobbie Award for Women’s Fiction and was shortlisted for the 1999 New South Wales Premier’s fiction award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, First Published Book. Melissa is an award-winning writer of the Yugambeh/Bundjalung people. In previous years we’ve have interviews and guest posts from Ambelin Kwaymullina and Gayle Kennedy, and this year we’re very happy to have the words of the wonderful Melissa Lucashenko. In the spirit of this, each year in July we arrange a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women writers. ![]() The first week of July is NAIDOC week, a celebration of the culture, history and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. ![]()
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