Us Mob Writers is the ACT and region's First Nations Writers Group. At the close of NAIDOC week 2023, Us Mob will share their poetic reflections on country, place, seasons, and the honour due to Elders, for their strength, perseverance and wisdom.

Us Mob Writing (UMW) group is made up of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander poets, writers and storytellers based in Canberra and the surrounding areas.  Our members past and present have written poetry, plays, songs, documentary films, short films, TV dramas, children’s story books, novels, short stories, biographies and autobiographies. UMW group has included major national and international literary award winners, a national literary awards judge, and multiple nationally and internationally published, performed and produced writers, including winners of the David Unaipon award.

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UMW Member’s poetry and prose have been published in many journals and anthologies nationally and internationally, including in the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. Their work has been translated in French, Korean, Bengali, Dutch and other non-English speaking languages.

They have previously published By Close of Business a poetry anthology in 2013.  In 2017 they launched Too Deadly: Our Voice, Our Way, Our Business. UMW members continually promote and showcase First Nations Australia poetry, nationally and internationally.