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Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and educator. Her debut poetry collection DROPBEAR won the 2022 Stella Prize, and her second collection, THE ROT, was nominated for the 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for Poetry and Indigenous Writing.

She works across the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, Overland Literary Journal, and the Institute of Postcolonial Studies.

Evelyn's curated events are:

Reimagining Resistance Beyond Colonies

Burial Grounds: Indigenous Perspectives on Horror

Sintering: An Evening of Indigenous Brilliance

Evelyn Araluen is appearing in the following events:

Opening Night: Visions & Revisions

Join us to open the 2026 Festival and celebrate 40 years of Melbourne Writers Festival.
Thu 7 May 6:30pm @ Athenaeum Theatre

Evelyn Araluen and Maxine Beneba Clarke: Girl, Woman, Poem

Two of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary poets discuss their incisive new collections of poetry, and their shared themes of girlhood, rage and resistance.
Sat 9 May 1:30pm @ Queen Victoria Women's Centre

Sintering: An Evening of Indigenous Brilliance

From poetry, to fiction, to nonfiction, to everything outside of and in-between, this event is a celebration of the encompassing, expansive, and uncontained way we know Indigenous brilliance, globally and locally, to exist.

Sat 9 May 6:30pm @ The Wheeler Centre

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