"Story Grounds"

The project explores the meeting of Indigenous Australian story practices with the teaching of creative writing, and how this meeting can be used both to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and to lift cultural competency across the university community. To do this, the project entwines creative and traditional research with teaching and community outreach. As well as connecting First Nations community members with the university through on-campus workshops, it provides a research basis for the integration of Indigenous Australian content and epistemology in mainstream creative writing classes. It supports the development of new Indigenous Australian writers, funds the creation of new works and investigates best practices for teaching creative writing to both mainstream and Indigenous Australian cohorts.