NOTE: Entries marked with an asterix * are print only or restricted access. Please get in touch if you’d like to access these texts.
As editor
Short fiction
Terranora, THIS ALL COME BACK NOW: an anthology of First Nations speculative fiction, 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, Kill Your Darlings New Australian Fiction, 2021 *
River Story, Flock: First Nations stories, UQP, 2021 & ABR 423, 2020 *
Fire Bug, National Indigenous Story Awards, 2020
Long Road Becoming, Kill Your Darlings New Australian Fiction, 2020
Buried Time, Overland 234: Autumn, 2019
Poetry
Choice Cuts, Overland, 2021
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
Life writing
Communing With Uncle Kev Through The Archives, 1991-2021, Against Disappearance, Liminal x Pantera Press, 2022 (forthcoming)
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
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
Introducing Blackfella Futurism: speculative fiction grounded in grassroots sovereignty politics, The Routledge Handbook of Co-futurisms, 2022 (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
© Mykaela Saunders, 2022
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