Ellen Van Neerven

Oct 21, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Ellen Van Neerven

Apr. 2024. 340p. Two Dollar Radio, paper, $18.95 (9781953387455). 796. REVIEW. First published October 21, 2024 (Booklist Online). Van Neerven’s wide-ranging memoir-in-essays considers various aspects of the author’s life playing sports in Australia as an Aboriginal person. Though this book covers many topics, it never feels weighed down as Van Neerven skillfully interweaves stories set on the soccer field with meditations on Indigenous sovereignty and societal erasure.

Jul 10, 2024 | eventfinda.com.au | Ellen Van Neerven

Sizzling hot concrete. Rainbow towels on half-dead grass. On a hot summer’s day, bodies of all shapes, colours and sizes journey to the public pool longing to do one thing… swim. Mununjali poet Ellen van Neerven is one of Australia’s finest and most awarded writers (Throat, Heat and Light). swim is their debut work for the stage. Genderfluid protagonist E negotiates the space between the men’s and women’s change rooms. They flex in front of the cute pool attendant.

Jan 22, 2024 | indigenousx.com.au | Ellen Van Neerven |Nat Cromb |Dujuan Hoosan

Growing up in the early 1990s, Australia Day celebrations were everywhere. It was a huge commodity largely felt through the local community, school, and social circles. There was intense pressure to engage in this day through activities promoting an empty patriotism that pressed against a legacy of genocide. My family resisted this pressure which resulted in a feeling of palpable tension. What is there to celebrate?

Dec 6, 2023 | grattan.edu.au | Anna Funder |Ellen Van Neerven |Mark Considine |Micheline Lee

Each year Grattan Institute selects its best books of the past 12 months – recommended reading for the Prime Minister, and indeed all Australians, over the summer holidays.

Oct 6, 2023 | lithub.com | Future Fables |Ellen Van Neerven

From Our Future Fables Podcast Series, in Partnership with Aesop A new volume of succinct yet stirring stories arrives with the second season of Future Fables.