Mykaela Saunders

Dr Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer and teacher, and the editor of This All Come Back Now, the Aurealis Award-winning, worldfirst anthology of blackfella speculative fiction. Mykaela won the 2022 David Unaipon Award for her manuscript Always Will Be. Her novel Last Rites of Spring was also shortlisted for the David Unaipon Award in 2020 and received a Next Chapter Fellowship in 2021. Mykaela has won prizes for short fiction, poetry, life writing and research, including the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize.

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Mykaela Saunders

An extract from Words to Sing the World Alive, co-edited by Jasmin McGaughey and The Poet’s Voice

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Debut Spotlight: 5 Questions

Debut Spotlight: 5 Questions

Mykaela Saunders

Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings Debut Spotlight feature. For March that debut is Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders (UQP), a timely collection of speculative fiction imagining futures where Indigenous sovereignty is fully reasserted.

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Debut Spotlight: 5 Questions

Debut Spotlight: 5 Questions

Mykaela Saunders

Resource Management

Resource Management

Mykaela Saunders

The stranger came a few weeks ago. None of us had ever seen him before. He came onto our land, but never spoke to us. We waited all day—he never came up and introduced himself, or told us where he’s from, or who his mob were. Never asked permission to camp here. Never tried to […]

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Resource Management

Resource Management

Mykaela Saunders

New Australian Fiction 2020: ‘Long Road: Becoming’

New Australian Fiction 2020: ‘Long Road: Becoming’

Mykaela Saunders

Your alarm goes off, and before the old you can hit snooze the new you has sat up and hit the stop button hard to chase any soft thoughts away. If you sleep in, if you don’t go for a run now, you’ll set yourself back and you won’t be any good all day. Do […]

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New Australian Fiction 2020: ‘Long Road: Becoming’

New Australian Fiction 2020: ‘Long Road: Becoming’

Mykaela Saunders