First Nations writers from the Greater Pacific came together for the First Nations Writers Festival this week to share their stories and experiences.
Held on Wulgurukaba Country in Townsville over two days, the First Nations Writers Festival brought together Indigenous writers to spotlight each other's work, discuss the issues facing their communities and the importance of recording and expressing Indigenous knowledge through writing. Represented at the festival were writers from Fiji, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Finland, New Zealand, USA and Australia.
Today, however, those same communities are facing the threat of their knowledges and languages dying out. Writer and festival award winner Paul Puri Nii from Papua New Guinea says that the recording and expression of these stories are key. "Indigenous writing is very important because we need to preserve and keep our culture alive. Oral history fades away as time goes by so we don't want that to happen.
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