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Australia’s premier organisation dedicated to showcasing and elevating First Nations literary voices. Blak & Bright is back in 2022.

Blak & Bright is a First Nations Literary Festival based in Melbourne. It's a four-day showcase celebrating the diverse expressions of First Nations writers, covering all genres, from songs to essays, oral stories to epic novels, and from plays to poetry.

25/05/2026

We're pleased to share our next Blak Writers Group Masterclass will be hosted by Dakota Feirer! He is a Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr storyteller, working with a diversity of mediums to address Indigenous resurgence, masculinity, ecological and cultural repair.

Dakota will guide participants in attending to the archival darkness of ‘natural history’ whilst exploring herbaria as a site of Country, memory and ghosts. This workshop invites participants to approach creative writing as a mode of counternarrative resistance, ontological repair and a tool for redesignating Indigenous relations throughout the world.

By mob for mob—if you're not already part of this free online group, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/yxaw75cd

22/05/2026

Blak & Bright has formally submitted recommendations to inform the development of our next National Cultural Policy.

Independent Blak-led orgs are part of the cultural infrastructure of this Country, and the future of our arts can’t continue to be built on extraction and advisory relationships.

Our submission, along with those of so many of our sibling orgs, has been provided to the Federal Government. The full submission can be read on our website.

19/05/2026

Phoebe is hosting her second First Nations & POC Poetry Night at narrm ngarrgu Library this Thursday! Now, more than ever, we need story.

🎟️ Free open mic
📆 Thursday 21 May at 6 - 8pm
📍 narrm ngarrgu Library

Credit for the beautiful art goes to Murrupuk Art

15/05/2026

Blak & Bright is so excited to welcome Evelyn Araluen to our Board of Directors!

Make sure to check out the 'Our People' page on our website to learn more about Evelyn and the rest of our deadly Blak & Bright family 🖤

https://www.blakandbright.com.au/our-people

11/05/2026

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Be the first to know about deadly events, new stories and Blak brilliance. It’s like a front-row seat in your inbox!

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05/05/2026

Admin has never looked so good!! Blak & Bright is so excited to welcome James Parr as our Administration Manager 💻

James is a Wiradjuri award-winning model, speaker, writer and disability advocate championing meaningful representation across fashion, media and society. Recognised by GQ, Australian Fashion Week and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Pacific, his work centres storytelling, inclusion and social impact.

Say a big hello to James 👋🏽

Read his full bio here: https://www.blakandbright.com.au/james-parr

30/04/2026

We're pleased to share our next Blak Writers Group Masterclass will be hosted by Lisa Fuller! Lisa is a Wuilli Wuilli woman from Eidsvold Queensland, also descended from Wakka Wakka and Gooreng Gooreng peoples.

Lisa will take you through a truncated version of how she starts her projects, with a focus on trying things on for size to figure out what works for you (or what doesn’t). We’ll have a taster of her editing process and try re-framing familiar spaces to add ‘texture’ to your world and characters.

By mob for mob—if you're not already part of this free online group, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/yxaw75cd

25/04/2026

Statement from Blak & Bright on the cancellation and pulping of 'Bila, a river cycle' by Jazz Money, illustrated by Matt Chun.

21/04/2026

Our lovely Phoebe Grainer is hosting a First Nations and POC poetry night! This is a night to speak your truth, to be inspired, and to dream ✨

🎟️ Free open mic
📆 Thursday 23 April at 6 - 8pm
📍 narrm ngarrgu Library

What's the story that you need to share?

13/04/2026

Our next Blak Writers Group session invites the deadly Isobel Morphy-Walsh, a proud Nirim Baluk woman from the Taun Wurrung (Taungurung) people, as our next facilitator!

Isobel will take us on a trip down memory lane in a digital writing workshop, taking inspiration from history, memory, place and how perception changes the narrative that exists.

By mob for mob—if you're not already part of this free online group, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/yxaw75cd

13/03/2026

Have you heard? We're looking to hire an Administration Manager, so share this with your mates!

Apply on our webiste: https://www.blakandbright.com.au/hiring-administration-manager 📝

Address

176 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne, VIC
3000

Telephone

+61390947897

Website

http://blakandbright.com.au/

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