Anita Heiss

Anita Heiss

"Novels are a great way of teaching and challenging audiences by hooking them through entertainment."

We are very fortunate at Booktopia to have interviewed Anita twice - read Anita's answers to our Ten Terrifying Questions - here and her answers to our Five Facetious Questions - here.

Dr Anita Heiss is an award-winning author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction, children’s novels and blogs. She is a proud member of the Wiradjuri Nation of central New South Wales, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, the GO Foundation and Worawa Aboriginal College. Anita is a board member of University of Queensland Press and Circa Contemporary Circus, and is a Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland. As artist in residence at La Boite Theatre in 2020, Anita began adapting her novel
Tiddas (S&S, 2014) for the stage. Her novel Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms (S&S 2016) set in Cowra during World War II, was the 2020 University of Canberra Book of the Year. Anita enjoys eating chocolate, running and being a 'creative disruptor'.

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Anita Heiss' Black Book Challenge

Is That You Ruthie? - Ruth Hegarty

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Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence : Nungar Ser. - Doris Pilkington Garimara

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Tell Me Why - Sarah Jackson

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Home : Black Australian Writing - Larissa Behrendt

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That Deadman Dance - Kim Scott

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My Place : Autobiography - Sally Morgan

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Stolen - Jane Harrison

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Anonymous Premonition - Yvette Holt

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Life B'long Ali Drummond : A Life in the Torres Strait - Samantha Faulkner
The Dreamers : Plays - Jack Davis

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The Cowboy Frog : Uupababa Ser. - Hilton Laurel

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Don't Take Your Love To Town : Black Australian Writing Ser. - Ruby Langford Ginibi
Wisdom Man : Biography of Banjo Clarke - Camilla Chance

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When I was little, like you - Mary Malbunka

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I'm the One That Know This Country - Jessie Lennon

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Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? - Lorraine McGee-Sippel

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