Emerging writers Jacob Gallagher and Dakota Feirer have each been named the State Library of Queensland's black&write fellows in 2023 for their unpublished manuscripts.

They share what this fellowship means to them and the inspiration behind their writing.

Anita Heiss reflects on this year's NAIDOC theme "For Our Elders" and the legacy of literary powerhouse Aunty Ruby Langford Gibini.

Plus for Word Up, Kaurna artist James Tylor delves deeper into language to explain how the Kaurna word for platypus was reconstructed.