Am I Black Enough For You? 10 Years On

Sat 7 May 2022

Queensland Terrace, level 2, State Library

Main Festival

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#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Has it already been a decade since the bravery of proud Wiradjuri woman and author Anita Heiss, along with other First Nations Australians, led to columnist Andrew Bolt being found guilty of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act? Heiss has captured this moment and much more in the updated, re-release of her searing and sophisticated memoir, Am I Black Enough for You? Join the celebrated author, in conversation with Brisbane's beloved Avid Reader bookshop proprietor Fiona Stager, to challenge Australia's ongoing colonial project through learning of the resistance and resilience in the stories of this country (many Countries) and its peoples.

Anita Heiss in conversation with Fiona Stager

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Anita Heiss

Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 25 books across genres. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central NSW, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.

Her adult fiction includes Manhattan Dreaming, Paris Dreaming and Tiddas which she adapted for the stage. Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms was shortlisted for the QLD Literary Awards and longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary Prize for Indigenous Writing, was shortlisted for the 2021 HNSA ARA Historical Novel (Adult Category) and longlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize.

In 2023, Anita released a children’s book Bidhi Galing (Big Rain) illustrated by Samantha Campbell, and became Publisher of her own imprint, Bundyi Publishing (Simon & Schuster).

In 2024 she released the historical novel Dirrayawadha (Rise Up).

Anita’s latest novel is Red Dust Running.