Friday 12 September, 6:00PM-7:00PM
Partnered Event
The 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers: A Celebration
Join Overland to celebrate the winners of the 2025 Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers. Overland’s Editor-in-Chief, Evelyn Araluen, will announce the winning writer and runner-up on the night on the night.
The Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers is supported by Trinity College.
Please note that this event will also be Livestreamed, and can be attended online. Ticket holders will receive a Livestream link by email, ahead of the event day.
Presented by:
The Nakata Brophy Prize is supported by
Pay-What-You-Wish
The Wheeler Centre, Performance Space (Level 2, ground level)
176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
Featuring...
Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a poet, researcher and co-editor of Overland Literary Journal. Her widely published criticism, fiction and poetry has been awarded the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellowship, and a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund grant. Born and raised on Dharug country, she is a descendant of the Bundjalung Nation. Evelyn’s debut collection Dropbear was shortlisted for the 2021 Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection and the 2022 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and won the 2022 Stella Prize. It was Highly Commended for the 2021 Anne Elder Award.
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