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Merrill Findlay is an independent Australian writer, scholar, teacher and community cultural development (CCD) practitioner. Her feature articles, essays and works of fiction have been widely published in Australia and internationally. More >> PROJECTS The Wenz Project >> Imagine The Future Inc >> Redreaming the
plains >> Hunza Wear Project >> www.merrillfindlay.com last revised 14 January 2008 |
CURRENT PROJECTS Into
our ethnic 'heartlands': a work-in-progress >> KATE KELLY PROJECT KK Project leaflet >> [pdf 67kb] SAVING QUONG LEE'S STORE IN FORBES >> WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP SAVE QUONG LEE'S >> Regional Arts Funding for the Kate Kelly Project!December 2008: Stage II of the Kate Kelly Project has received substantial funding from Regional Arts Australia. The money will be used to complete a song cycle and script treatment, and to undertake further commuity consultation in 2009 >> Community writing workshops >>
Merrill
Findlay is supporting creative writing in
regional Australia through her community writers workshops, including The Possum Skin Cloak Project at Kelso, NSW, and Fictions,
non-fictions, memoirs and family histories: writing stories that
people want to read. |
RECENT WORK From terra incognita to cognita >> The Australian edition of No Such Thing As A Free Ride, edited by Tom Sykes and Simon Sykes, follows the British (2005) and North American (2008) versions. More >> Understanding
Place Through Narrative >> ... No continent can be invaded, no massacre committed, no abuse perpetrated, no people subjugated, vilified or discriminated against, no land degraded, no wetlands drained, no climate changed, no species made extinct and no creeks or rivers despoiled by humans– unless stories make it so. More >> Balochistan,
the invisible war >> ... In the days immediately before I was to catch the train to Quetta, the provincial capital near Pakistan’s borders with Afghanistan and Iran, ‘terrorists’ detonated a bomb in a shopping plaza in the city’s military cantonment and fired rockets at a couple of express trains .... More >> [pdf 126kb] Re-imagining Australia's futures >> |
FROM THE ARCHIVES Publications by Merrill Findlay on themes she is passionate about. Republic
of Women: a novel >> St Kilda is home to a vital community of free-thinking individuals, and Merrill Findlay introduces an exotic cavalcade of characters... Read more >> READ the reviews of this critically acclaimed novel >> Breasting cancer in the bush, a personal story >> Eddie
Mabo Comes Home to Murray Island >>
Timeless
bond between birds and people >> As the days grow shorter in the far-off waters of the North Pacific, hundreds of thousands of hungry, dun-coloured seabirds, millions even, begin their long annual flight south to Big Dog Island ... More >> Eritrea: just a question of time >> In a stone room dug into the side of a narrow rocky gorge we bent towards a tiny transistor radio ... More >> Read more of Merrill's non-fiction and fiction |
First published in Canberra
Times, 7 June, 1989.