Brooke Scobie Brooke Scobie i(18864656 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Bundjalung
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BiographyHistory

Bundjalung writer, raised on Bdjigal country, and later settled on Darkinjung land. Brooke Scobie has also worked towards a Diploma of Creative and Indigenous writing.

They were a finalist for the 2023 David Unaipon Award, and has performed at the Sydney Biennale, Melbourne Writers Festival and Queer Stories. 

Source: Verity La.

This author uses they/them pronouns.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Unpublished Indigenous Writer : David Unaipon Award for Always and Again
2022 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Elevate : First Nations Storytelling to work towards he first full-length novel, allowing the time and space to develop and refine her craft.
2022 recipient Varuna Fellowships — First Nations Fellowship for her fantasy/speculative fiction manuscript ‘The Unwoven’
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Yarn Quest Australia : 2021-2022 27238426 2021 series - publisher podcast

'Yarn Quest is a First Nations-led children’s podcast that brings to life big stories by little kids! Incorporating stories written by the Awesome Black team with stories submitted by our listeners aka Little Yarnies, Yarn Quest is a fully immersive, hilarious, expansive and sometimes gross (because, little kids) audio adventure for kids aged 4-10, and the grown ups who have to entertain them.

'Hosted by Brooke Scobie, a queer Goorie single mum, writer, podcast host, and community worker and Uncle Mot, a Taungurung man passionate about the ocean, cooking and spinning big yarns, Yarn Quest is all about telling the stories kids want to tell.'

Source: Production blurb.
2023 finalist Australian Podcast Awards — Family and Kids
2023 finalist Australian Podcast Awards — Indigenous Podcast
Bidjigal Double Brick Dreaming i "The smell of Jasmine", 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 242 2021; (p. 59-60) Groundswell: The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Artists 2021; (p. 176-177) Best of Australian Poems 2021 2021; (p. 30)
2020 second place The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
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