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

Authors

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  Maxine Beneba Clarke

  Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of many books for adults and children, including the short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the memoir The Hate Race, the self-illustrated picture book When We Say Black Lives Matter (longlisted for the UK’s Kate Greenaway medal), and the CBCA Honour Book The Patchwork Bike (illustrated by Van T Rudd), which won the 2019 Boston Globe Horn Prize for Best Picture Book.
  
  Her poetry collections include beautiful changelings, Carrying the World, How Decent Folk Behave, It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people, and Stuff I'm (NOT) Sorry For: 99 more poems for young people.
  
  Maxine was the inaugural Peter Steele Poet in Residence at the University of Melbourne (2023-2025).
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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
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  Maeve Marsden

  Maeve Marsden is the Creative Director of Varuna the National Writers’ House and the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival. A writer and theatremaker, she has presented work at major festivals and venues across Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
  
  Maeve is perhaps best known for producing Queerstories, a national storytelling project that has brought more than 500 LGBTQI+ writers to stages around the country, with a collection published by Hachette in 2018.

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