
As editor
THIS ALL COME BACK NOW: an anthology of First Nations speculative fiction, UQP, 2022
- Overture (introduction to the anthology), Sydney Review of Books, 2022
Short fiction
Ocean Bikies Take Cyclone Season!, Imagine 2200 Editors’ Picks, Grist special series, 2023
Terranora, This All Come Back Now, UQP, 2022 & Collisions: Fictions of the Future, Liminal x Pantera Press, 2020
The Girls Home, Unlimited Futures: speculative, visionary, blak+black fiction, Fremantle Press, 2022
Warm Possibilities, (Story)…Loading, 2021
Resource Management, New Australian Fiction, Kill Your Darlings, 2021
River Story, Flock: First Nations stories then and now, UQP, 2021 & ABR 423, 2020
Fire Bug, National Indigenous Story Awards, 2020
Long Road Becoming, New Australian Fiction, Kill Your Darlings, 2020
Buried Time, Overland 234: Autumn, 2019
Poetry
Choice Cuts, Best of Australian Poems Vol 2, 2022 & Overland 245: Summer, 2021
Rain and Blood, Openbook: Spring, 2022
Sandstone Academy, Best of Australian Poems Vol 1 & Rabbit 32: Form, 2021
Brother Ocean, Grieve 9: stories and poems of grief and loss, 2021
Campfire Constellations, Westerly 66.1, 2021
Apocalypse, then (and now, carbon lullabies), Rabbit 30: Long II, 2020
Small witch, a shield, Cordite 96: No Theme IX, 2020
Purging Words (eavesdrop, exhume), Rabbit 29: Lineages, 2019
For Cops Who Stalk Children on Houso Estates, Cordite 93: Peach, 2019
Grandmother Ghosts, Cordite 89: Domestic, 2019
Essays
Writing Goori Futures, Writing the Future essay series, Writing NSW, 2023
A Road Warrior, Commute essay series, Sydney Review of Books, 2022
Communing With Uncle Kev Through The Archives, 1991-2021, Against Disappearance: essays on memory, Liminal x Pantera Press, 2022
Stories of Our Dysfunction Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, Writing Gender essay series, Sydney Review of Books, 2022
Dear Future Mykaela / who are we now?, The Stories We Tell Ourselves, Spread the Word UK x Melbourne City of Literature, 2021
West Footscray Factory Fire (an apocalypse), The Victorian Writer: Oct-Nov, 2019
But You Don’t Look Aboriginal, Growing Up Indigenous in Australia, 2018 & The Stringer, 2014
Critique
Think of the Children! – review of Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright, Sydney Review of Books, 2023
Everywhen: against The Power of Now, Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning, 2022
Skin in the Game – review of Another Day in The Colony by Chelsea Watego, Sydney Review of Books, 2022
TT Zion, Lost Tablets by Jan van Schaik, 2022
Everywhen in Everything: reading Carpentaria like an Aboriginal writer, Reading Like an Australian Writer, NewSouth Publishing, 2021
The Land is The Law: on climate fictions and relational thinking, Art + Australia 57.1: Multinaturalism, 2021
Research & scholarly work
Blackfella Futurism: speculative fiction grounded in grassroots sovereignty politics, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, 2023 (forthcoming)
Future Tweed: envisioning the possibilities of Bundjalung country, community and culture through speculative fiction, The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures, 2023 (forthcoming)
Goori Futurism: envisioning the sovereignty of country, community and culture in the Tweed, Doctor of Arts (creative writing) short story collection and exegesis, University of Sydney, 2021
Literature Review – towards a best practise recovery program for Indigenous family and domestic violence, Wollumbin Family Support Inc, 2020
Goori Futurism: envisioning the sovereignty of Minjungbal-Nganduwal country, community and culture through speculative fiction, Science Fiction Research Association Review 330: Fall, 2019
Living and Dying Countries: ecocide, consciousness and agency in First Nations futurism, Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter 21: Decolonising Speculative Fiction, 2018
Yarning with Minjungbal Women: transgenerational trauma and healing explored through relationships with country and culture, community and family, Master of Education (research) thesis, University of Sydney, 2014
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© Mykaela Saunders, 2023