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First Nations Youth Write Night is an opportunity to celebrate First Nations stories and storytellers and write in safe, collaborative space. The Write Night is an opportunity for mob to work on their writing and discuss a First Nations book with other young people. The selected book is the poetry collection Guwayu - For All times.

Guwayu – For All Times is a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry over the past 16 years. The collection is edited by Wiradjuri poet, Dr Jeanine Leane, produced by Red Room Poetry and published by Magabala Books.

Launched in August 2020, Guwayu – For All Times features 63 poems from 36 First Nations poets in 12 First Nations languages, including works by Ali Cobby Eckermann, Bruce Pascoe, Lionel Fogarty, Ellen Van Neerven, Evelyn Araluen, Lorna Munro and many more.

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DETAILS

When:  Monday 17 April , 5:30pm - 7:30pm 

Where:  Centre for Stories, Northbridge 

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About Casey Mulder

Casey is a Ballardong Noongar woman from Western Australia. She is a Secondary English teacher and Student Services leader within schools. Casey has a keen interest in First Nations storytelling in all its forms. In 2022, she received a Creative Development Scholarship from Magabala Books to complete an editing mentorship at Night Parrot Press. She currently has a Writing Fellowship at the Centre for Stories in Perth, to work on a memoir manuscript, and was recently appointed as the First Nations Editor for Westerly Magazine.