Ellen van Neerven

Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer, editor and literary activist belonging to the Munujali people of the Yugambeh nation. Ellen's books include Heat and Light, Comfort Food and Throat. Photo: Anna Jacobson

Works By Ellen van Neerven

Settling Scores
In the wake of the women’s World Cup, Ruth McHugh-Dillon speaks to Ellen van Neerven about playing sport on Indigenous land and the challenges – of classification and acknowledgement – laid down by their latest book, Personal Score.
28 Aug. 2023
House or Country
Both books remind me of the ‘emerging’ discipline of planetary health, which is the scientific naming of what our ancestors already know, which is that people and place’s wellbeing are connected. A healthy planet means fewer diseases.
20 May. 2020
Silhouettes
Smith’s biggest achievement in Wade in the Water is her effort to stay true to all the different music she heard through writing the book and to reflect that in the sound of this book. The book is a gathering, and a chorus.
25 Sept. 2018
Centre of the Story: Desert Writing: Stories from Country
Desert Writing brings to readers stories of desert communities and the individuals who form part of them that are not often featured in literature or media. Train lines have been built, and airports made but the places aren’t any closer; these are...
31 Jan. 2017
North and South
We circle, we move, we leave and return. The grass isn’t still. Nor the water. Nothing is static. Country extends over borders.
3 Nov. 2016

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Ellen van Neerven

Works By Ellen van Neerven

Settling Scores

House or Country

Silhouettes

Centre of the Story: Desert Writing: Stories from Country

North and South

Works Featuring Ellen van Neerven

On The Power To Be Still

Writing, Editing: An Interview with Ellen van Neerven