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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 NEW!! The Hunza Wear Project The Wenz Project Imagine The Future Inc Redreaming the
plains www.merrillfindlay.com last revised 17 June, 2008. |
CURRENT PROJECTS Saving
Kate Kelly NEW: WALK BACK IN TIME TO SAVE KATE KELLY , Forbes Advocate, 17 June 2008
STORIES WANTED: Are you the custodian of family folklore or other stories about Kate Kelly, her husband ‘Brickie’ Foster, or any of the people Kate associated with in central western NSW, in the 1880s and '90s? If so, then this writer would like to hear from you ... More >> KK Project leaflet >> [pdf 67kb] Community
writing workshops >>
Merrill Findlay supports creative writing in regional Australia with community writers workshops, such as The Possum Skin Cloak Project at Kelso, NSW, and Fictions, non-fictions, memoirs and family histories: writing stories that people want to read. Contact Merrill for a workshop in your area. More > |
RECENT WORK Forbes, 9 March, 2008 Into
Australia's 'heartlands': a journey 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: politics, land and terror in remote Pakistan Article first published in Arena magazine, Oct. 2007 Even my Pakistani friends warned me about Balochistan, and not without reason. 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 Past work by Merrill Findlay on themes she is passionate about. Republic
of Women >> 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 >> Breasting cancer in the bush: a personal narrative Eddie Mabo Comes Home to Murray Island
It's hot on the rim of this extinct volcano at the far northern end of the Great Barrier Reef. Bonita Mabo has been waiting in the shade of a battered fibro shed all morning. More >> Timeless bond between birds and people First published in The Age, Saturday Extra, 22 August 1998. With photos by Sandy Scheltema. 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 |
Article first published in Good Weekend, June 1, 1996. 
First published in Canberra
Times, 7 June, 1989.