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Mykaela Saunders

Mykaela Saunders

Mykaela Saunders is the author of Always Will Be (2024), which won the David Unaipon Award, and the editor of This All Come Back Now (2022), the Aurealis Award-winning, world-first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction. Mykaela has won other prizes for fiction, poetry, life writing and research, including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at Macquarie University. Of Dharug and Lebanese descent, Mykaela belongs to the Tweed Goori community.

Jolley Prize 2020 (Winner): 'River Story' by Mykaela Saunders

August 2020, no. 423 24 July 2020
A crow-shaped shadow flies across the river. Juna knows that her daughter is coming, so the right thing to do is make her favourite feed. Juna casts a fishing net over the river with her mind. The net drifts onto the surface, slips under the skin, and is swallowed by the water. The net descends through the deep water slowly, resting on the bed. River grass unflattens and pokes up between the spac ... (read more)