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The Prize for Indigenous Writing: Judges 2008
| Philip Morrissey (Convenor)Philip Morrissey is currently the Academic Coordinator of the Australian Indigenous Studies Program in the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. He publishes widely on Aboriginal sport, governance, and literature. |
| Jane HarrisonJane Harrison is a descendant of the Muruwari people of NSW and is a researcher, playwright and author. She contributed one chapter to Many Voices, Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation (2002) and an essay in Just Words? Australian Authors Writing for Justice (2008). Her play Stolen (1998) premiered in Melbourne and has had productions in regional Victoria, Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmania, WA, the UK (twice), Hong Kong and Tokyo, and readings in Canada and New York. The play was on the VCE English syllabus from 2002 to 2005 and was the co-winner of the Kate Challis RAKA Award 2002. Rainbow’s End (2005) premiered at the Melbourne Museum, has been translated into Japanese for a Tokyo production (2007) and is on the NSW English syllabus 2009-12. Her other plays include Blakvelvet, which won the Inscriptions Indigenous Playwriting Prize (2006) and Custody, winner of the Peter Holmes a Court Indigenous Playwriting Prize (2007). Jane co-wrote one episode of the mini-series The Circuit, which was broadcast on SBS in 2007. |
| Bruce SimsBruce Sims is now a freelance editor, having worked as a publisher for Penguin Books and Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation for many years. He has also taught at all levels from primary to tertiary, professional and adult education. | |
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