Who is Telling ‘Australian’ Stories? The Results from the First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count

Kon-yu, N; Booth, E

Who is Telling ‘Australian’ Stories? The Results from the First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count

Kon-yu, N Booth, E

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Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 2022, 69, (2-3), pp. 107-123
Issue Date:: 2022-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Kon-yu, N
dc.contributor.author	Booth, E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8154-6747
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-27T04:50:56Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-27T04:50:56Z
dc.date.issued	2022-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 2022, 69, (2-3), pp. 107-123
dc.identifier.issn	2051-2856
dc.identifier.issn	2051-2864
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/170890
dc.description.abstract	The Australian Publishing Industry has long been critiqued for its lack of diverse voices. In Australia movements such as Voices From the Intersection and The Stella Diversity Survey have been aimed at bringing an awareness of this lack to a larger audience, while festivals such as Blak and Bright, and awards such as The Next Chapter, have sought to highlight the works of authors who identify as First Nations or as Writers of Colour. The study discussed in this paper is the first large-scale study that sought to identify how culturally diverse the author cohort was in the study year of 2018. The First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count (henceforth FNPOC Writers Count) sought to identify the publication rate of books in 2018 that were by Australian authors who publicly identified as First Nations people or People of Colour. The purpose of the project was to develop the first large-scale numerical dataset that illustrated the inequity in Australia’s publishing industry that has been anecdotally observed for many years.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Language, Literature and Culture
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/20512856.2022.2160250
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dc.rights	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Language, Literature and Culture on 2022-09-02, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/20512856.2022.2160250.
dc.subject	2002 Cultural Studies, 2003 Language Studies, 2005 Literary Studies
dc.title	Who is Telling ‘Australian’ Stories? The Results from the First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

The Australian Publishing Industry has long been critiqued for its lack of diverse voices. In Australia movements such as Voices From the Intersection and The Stella Diversity Survey have been aimed at bringing an awareness of this lack to a larger audience, while festivals such as Blak and Bright, and awards such as The Next Chapter, have sought to highlight the works of authors who identify as First Nations or as Writers of Colour. The study discussed in this paper is the first large-scale study that sought to identify how culturally diverse the author cohort was in the study year of 2018. The First Nations and People of Colour Writers Count (henceforth FNPOC Writers Count) sought to identify the publication rate of books in 2018 that were by Australian authors who publicly identified as First Nations people or People of Colour. The purpose of the project was to develop the first large-scale numerical dataset that illustrated the inequity in Australia’s publishing industry that has been anecdotally observed for many years.

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