productions. Harrison was awarded for Rainbow’s End the Drover Award (Tour of the Year) and a Helpmann Awards nomination for Best Regional Touring Production. It was studied on the NSW HSC and from 2013 has been on the Victorian VCE English syllabus. Rainbow's End tells the simple, yet convoluted story of three generations of Aboriginal women; young Dolly, her mother the happy-go-lucky Gladys, and the wise and stern Nan Dear, living in their shanty perched on the flats of the Goulburn River in 1950s regional Victoria. The play was initially directed by Wesley Enoch. On a Park Bench On a Park Bench was created through workshops at Playbox and the Banff Playrites Colony. The play was a finalist in the Lake Macquarie Drama Prize. Blakvelvet Blakvelvet won the 2006 Theatrelab Indigenous Award. Novels and short stories Becoming Kirrali Lewis Harrison's novel, Becoming Kirrali Lewis, won the State Library of Queensland 2014 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowship, was shortlisted in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2016, and was Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2016. Becoming Kirrali Lewis is a coming-of-age teen fiction novel about the search by Stolen Generations member Kirrali Lewis for her biological parents, which turns stereotypes on their heads. Becoming Kirrali Lewis was published by Magabala Books in 2015. Born, Still Short story, Born, Still, was published by the State Library of Queensland in Writing Black: New Indigenous Writing from Australia, launched in May 2014, and in the anthology Flock published by University of Queensland Press in 2021. Born, Still is a gentle reflection on the death of a daughter before birth. Born, Still was subsequently re-worked as a play, premiered at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2018. Other writing Healing our communities, healing ourselves was published in the Medical Journal of Australia and won the Dr Ross Ingram Essay Prize in 2010. Indig-curious; Who can play Aboriginal roles? published by Currency House explores the issues raised by Aboriginal identity in theatre. Harrison also contributed a chapter to Many Voices, Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, which was published by the National Library of Australia, Canberra. This work was also related to the theme of the stolen generations. Harrison has been Festival Director of Blak & Bright - First Nations Literary Festival in Melbourne since 2015. See also Stolen Generations References External links Stolen Contemporary Indigenous Plays Rainbow’s End Medical Journal of Australia Healing our