Weaving Gold from Firelight: Fairytales with a Blak twist
Call for submissions to a middle-grade anthology
Weaving Gold from Firelight: Fairytales with a Blak twist, to be published by UQP, will take the old fairytales and twist them to celebrate First Nations cultures and challenge colonial narratives.
Award-winning writer, academic, freelance writer/editor and literary agent Lisa Fuller is looking for published and unpublished First Nations Australian writers to reimagine the stories they grew up hearing and tell them in a way that has meaning today. This collection will speak to middle grade readers and young people (and young at heart) about difference, otherness, reframing/challenging mainstream stories and having fun doing it.
Was the villain really that bad? Or did the protag get a jump on the PR? Maybe the ‘villain’ is just happy with who they are and doesn’t need a sugar-frosted fairytale? Who is that character outside of the trope, or inside it? What does ‘happily ever after’ mean and for whom? There are so questions, and so many ways to twist them.