This All Come Back Now An anthology of First Nations speculative fiction

The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, ‘ this all come back’ : all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we’ d gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us. Some writers summon ancestral spirits from the past, while others look straight down the barrel of potential futures, which always end up curving back around to hold us from behind. Dazzling, imaginative and unsettling, This All Come Back Now centres and celebrates communities and culture. It’ s a love letter to kin and country, to memory and future-thinking.

Dr Mykaela Saunders is a Koori/Goori and Lebanese writer, teacher and researcher, and the editor of This All Come Back Now, the Aurealis Award– winning, world-first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction (UQP, 2022). Always Will Be won the 2022 David Unaipon Award. Mykaela's writing has won numerous prizes including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize, and the National Indigenous Story Award. They are currently an Indigenous postdoctoral fellow at Macquarie University, researching First Nations speculative fiction.

Overture Muyum, a Transgression – Evelyn Araluen Clatter Tongue – Karen Wyld Closing Time – Samuel Wagan Watson In His Father’ s Footsteps – Kalem Murray Myth This! – Lisa Fuller Jacaranda Street – Jasmin McGaughey The Kadaitcha Sung – Samuel William Watson Snake of Light – Loki Liddle Your Own Aborigine – Adam Thompson Five Minutes – John Morrissey When From – Merryana Salem The Centre – Alison Whittaker An Invitation – Timmah Ball Nimeybirra – Laniyuk Water – Ellen van Neerven Terranora – Mykaela Saunders The Purple Plains – Archie Weller Old Uncle Sir – Jack Latimore Dust Cycle – Alexis Wright Lake Mindi – Krystal Hurst After the End of Their World – Hannah Donnelly Protocols of Transference – Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker Notes on sources About the cover Acknowledgements