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Launched by Magabala Books in 2019, The Daisy Utemorrah Award for Indigenous Authors is for the best unpublished manuscript (children's or young adult) by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander writer.
The award is in honour of Daisy Utemorrah, and is sponsored by the Copyright Agency' Cultural Fund.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2020
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Year: 2019
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Year: 2018
inaugural winner y
Bindi
Broome
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Magabala Books
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2020
19598297
2020
single work
children's fiction
children's
'Meet 11-year-old Bindi. She’s not really into maths but LOVES art class and playing hockey. Her absolute FAVOURITE thing is adventuring outside with friends or her horse, Nell.
'A new year starts like normal—school, family, hockey, dancing. But this year hasn’t gone to plan! There’s a big art assignment, a drought, a broken wrist AND the biggest bushfires her town has ever seen!
'Bindi is a verse novel for mid-upper primary students. Written ‘for those who plant trees’, Bindi explores climate, bushfires, and healing. Written from the point of view of 11-year-old Bindi and her friends on Gundungurra Country.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
as 'Mother Speaks'.
Works About this Award
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It's Time to Be Published : New Authors Called to Apply to Magabala Books 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 16 January no. 692 2019; (p. 36)
