Anita+Heiss

**Biography**
Anita is a writer, poet, activist, social commentator and academic. She is the author of Yirra and her deadly dog, Demon, I’m not racist, but... and My Story: the diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Young People's History Prize. She is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of central New South Wales, but grew up in Matraville, Sydney. Anita describes herself as a concrete Koori with a Westfield dreaming - a city chick whose idea of Survivor is a night in a caravan. []

Welcome to Anita Heiss online!

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Follow Anita Heiss on Twitter **twitter** .com/**anitaheiss** **@AnitaHeiss** I'm Wiradjuri. I write. I publish. I perform. I travel. I choose to be positive. I eat chocolate therefore I am. My showreel: @http://vimeo.com/16712362

Anita’s Black Book Challenge (BBC)
=== Most of us have heard of the [|BBC’s Book Challenge]listing 100 books. Somewhere (probably on Facebook) it was claimed that most people had only read 6 of the 100. When I first read the list I wondered what an Indigenous list might look like, and how many books most Australians would have read in terms of home grown Indigenous literature. === []

Why [|Mr Jongen thinks that you should read Anita Heiss] Here are the Anita Heiss books that we have at olmclibrary. Manhattan Dreaming and Paris Dreaming are on order
 * [|Sacred cows [on order]] || Heiss, Anita ||  || Book || Fiction ||   ||   ||
 * [|Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence] || Heiss, Anita || 305.89915 HEI || Book || Fiction ||  ||   ||
 * [|Barani [website]] || Heiss, Anita || 306.0899915 HEI || Website ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|I'm not racist but… : a colleciton of social observations] || Heiss, Anita || A 821.3 HEI || Book || Non Fiction ||  ||   ||
 * [|Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence, Sydney, 1937] || Heiss, Anita || CS HEI || Book || Class Set ||  ||   ||
 * [|Avoiding Mr Night] || Heiss, Anita || FIC HEI || Book || Fiction ||  ||   ||
 * [|Not meeting Mr Right] || Heiss, Anita || JF HEI || Book || Fiction ||  ||   ||


 * Want to take up the Anita Heiss Black Book Challenge - try but remember not all these titles are by Koori writers. ||
 * || Title || Author || Call Number || Media || Location || Sublocation || Available ||
 * [|Aboriginal History - Life stories & Aboriginal views] ||  ||   || ClickView Video ||   ||   ||   ||
 * [|Memories of Jimmy Cook] ||  ||   || ClickView Video ||   ||   ||   ||
 * [|Yarning up] ||  ||   || ClickView Video ||   ||   ||   ||
 * [|A great landscape : Indigenous music in Australia] ||  ||   || ClickView Video ||   ||   ||   ||
 * [|Ten canoes] ||  ||   || ClickView Video ||   ||   ||   ||
 * [|Sacred cows [on order]] || Heiss, Anita ||  || Book || Fiction || N/A || 0 ||
 * [|The Making Of Modern Australia - Part 1: The Australian Child] ||  ||   || ClickView Video ||   ||   ||   ||
 * [|Indigenous Australia] || Australian Museum || 298 IND || Website ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|Living Aboriginal history of Victoria stories in the oral tradition] || Fowell, Derek || 305.899 15 JAC || Book || Non Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|The stolen children : their stories] || Bird, Carmel || 305.899 15 STO || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|2] ||
 * [|Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence] || Heiss, Anita || 305.89915 HEI || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Barani [website]] || Heiss, Anita || 306.0899915 HEI || Website ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|Aboriginal stories of Australia] || Reed, A.W. || 398.2 REE || Book || Non Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Yorro yorro : Aboriginal creation and the renewal of nature : rock paintings and stories from the Australian Kimberley] || Malnic, Jutta || 572.994 MOW || Book || Non Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|I'm not racist but… : a colleciton of social observations] || Heiss, Anita || A 821.3 HEI || Book || Non Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Yarra healing : meeting the Kulin nation] || Catholic Education Office (Melbourne, Vic.) || CD-ROM 994.51 YAR || Electronic resource || Non Fiction || N/A || 0 ||
 * [|Who am I? : the diary of Mary Talence, Sydney, 1937] || Heiss, Anita || CS HEI || Book || Class Set || N/A || [|33] ||
 * [|The apology to the stolen generations of Australia] ||  || DVD 2831 || Videorecording || Videos || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|In our own right : black Australian nurses' stories] || Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses || DVD 610.73 INO || Videorecording || Videos || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|One night the moon] ||  || DVD 791.43 ONE || Videorecording || Videos || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Home] || Behrendt, Larissa || FIC BEH || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|The secret river] || Grenville, Kate || FIC GRE || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|The secret river] || Grenville, Kate || FIC GRE || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Avoiding Mr Night] || Heiss, Anita || FIC HEI || Book || Fiction || N/A || 0 ||
 * [|The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith] || Keneally, Thomas || FIC KEN || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|2] ||
 * [|Love like water] || McDonald, Meme || FIC MCD || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|3] ||
 * [|Coonardoo] || Prichard, Katharine Susannah || FIC PRI || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Plains of promise] || Wright, Alexis || FIC WRI || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Paper bags and dreams] || Dobbie, Fran || JF DOB || Book ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|Barefoot kids] || Hawke, Steve || JF HAW || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Not meeting Mr Right] || Heiss, Anita || JF HEI || Book || Fiction || N/A || 0 ||
 * [|The burnt stick] || Hill, Anthony || JF HIL || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|The girl with no name] || Lowe, Pat || JF LOW || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|6] ||
 * [|Njunjul the sun] || McDonald, Meme || JF MCD || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|2] ||
 * [|Gracey] || Moloney, James || JF MOL || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|4] ||
 * [|Angela] || Moloney, James || JF MOL || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|4] ||
 * [|The Barrumbi kids] || Norrington, Leonie || JF NOR || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|The spirit of Barrumbi] || Norrington, Leonie || JF NOR || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Leaving Barrumbi] || Norrington, Leonie || JF NOR || Book || Fiction || N/A || [|3] ||
 * [|Idjhil] || Bell, Helen || PB BEL || Book || Picture Book || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Roughtail : the dreaming of the roughtail lizard and other stories told by the Kukatja] || Gill, Lucille || PB GRE || Book || Picture Book || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Ernie dances to the didgeridoo] || Lester, Alison || PB LES || Book || Picture Book || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|The rabbits] || Marsden, John || PB MAR || Book || Picture Book || N/A || 0 ||
 * [|You and me : our place] || Norrington, Leonie || PB NOR || Book || Picture Book || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|The cave painters] || Trezise, Percy || PB TRE || Book || Picture Book || N/A || [|1] ||
 * [|Land of the snake people] || Trezise, Percy || PB TRE || Book || Picture Book || N/A || [|2] ||
 * [|The dreaming of Aboriginal Australia : a large collection of inspirational stories] || Ellis, Jean A. || TR 398.209 94 DRE || Book || Non fiction Teacher Reference || N/A || [|2] ||  ||
 * [|The dreaming of Aboriginal Australia : a large collection of inspirational stories] || Ellis, Jean A. || TR 398.209 94 DRE || Book || Non fiction Teacher Reference || N/A || [|2] ||  ||