Welcome to Blak Ink, where storytelling gets real, raw and unapologetically Blak! 

Poetry is power and this night will prove it. Laniyuk and Evelyn Araluen bring words that cut through silence, challenge the status quo and hold deep to culture, memory and resistance. Their poetry is sharp, lyrical and unflinching; rooted in Country, identity and the strength carried through generations.

This is storytelling that doesn’t ask for permission. It reclaims, disrupts, and demands to be heard. Come for the poetry, stay for the power and leave with a renewed appreciation for the force of Blak feminist storytelling in shaping the world we live in.

Join us for a night that’s as bold, fun and fierce as the writers themselves. Blak Ink is here to amplify First Nations voices, share stories that need to be heard and do it all with a whole lot of soul!

Evelyn Araluen
Evelyn Araluen is a Goorie and Koori poet, researcher and editor. Her 2021 collection ‘DROPBEAR’ won the 2022 Stella Prize. Her second collection, ‘THE ROT’, will be published by UQP in 2025. She is the co-editor of Overland Literary Journal, and a lecturer in Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Wilin Centre.

Laniyuk
Laniyuk is a Larrakia, Kungarakan, Gurindji and French writer and performer of poetry and short memoir. She received Canberra’s Noted Writers Festival’s 2017 Indigenous Writers Residency, Overland’s 2018 Writers Residency and was shortlisted for Overland’s 2018 Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize. She is currently completing her first collection of work to be published through Magabala Books.

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