Gesa recognised in 2024 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards
Indigenous, Pasifika and West Asian writer Meleika Gesa has been recognised with a Dreaming Award for young emerging artists at the 2024 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards.
The awards are presented by Creative Australia each year on 27 May, marking the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the start of National Reconciliation Week.
Gesa, also known by the artist name Vika Mana, is a Torres Strait Islander and Tongan writer living in Meanjin (Brisbane). A recipient of the Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter program in 2019, Gesa was also recently named one of the 2024 recipients of the State Library of Queensland’s black&write! fellowships.
Gesa’s work has been published in several journals, sites and anthologies, including Fire Front (ed by UQP), Unlimited Futures (ed by Rafeif Ismail & Ellen van Neerven, Fremantle Press), Nangamay Dream Mana Gather Djurali Grow (ed by Black Books) and Avast! (ed by Michael Earp & Alison Evans, Fremantle Press).
Information about the recipients of the 2024 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards is available on the Creative Australia website.
Picture credit: Atong Atern.
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