MWF
7-10 May
2026

Mykaela Saunders

Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer and the author of Always Will Be (UQP 2024), which won the David Unaipon Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s and NSW Literary Awards. Mykaela edited This All Come Back Now (UQP 2022), the world’s first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction, which won an Aurealis Award. Mykaela has won other prizes for fiction, poetry, essays and research, including the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize and the Rosemary van den Berg Prize for First Nations Criticism. Mykaela is a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University researching First Nations speculative fiction. 

Mykaela Saunders is appearing in the following events:

Reimagining Resistance Beyond Colonies

This powerful panel brings together Indigenous writers from Canada and Australia to explore how storytelling becomes a site of resistance, refusal, and reclamation.
Sat 9 May 10:30am @ The Wheeler 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

Chelsea Vowel: Indigenous Futurisms

In this thought-provoking lecture, Métis author Chelsea Vowel explores Indigenous futurisms as a dynamic movement that transcends traditional literary genres, encompassing art, music, video games, fashion, and various media that express Indigenous perspectives on the past, present and future.
Sun 10 May 4:30pm @ State Library Victoria, Theatrette
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