# Winnie Dunn

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9. Fully Lit live: the 2025 Miles Franklin Award

In an engaging, though-provoking and moving conversation, Winnie Dunn, Julie Janson and Siang Lu - all shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award - discuss their nominated works, the ideas that shaped them, and the questions they raise about Australian life, literature and identity toda…

Tea Time with Winnie Dunn

In this episode, I chat with Winnie about what it takes (and means) to be a bad writer but in a good way, on being the first Tongan-Australian published author with her debut Dirt Poor Islanders, and what the Sweatshop Literacy Movement is all about. This is a public episode. If you would like to d…

From a debut to two-time winner — the Miles Franklin shortlist is here

From Miles Franklin prize veteran Michelle de Kretster to debut novelist Winnie Dunn, we bring you all six of the shortlisted authors in this round-up of their celebrated books. This year's shortlist features a book set in an Ancient Chinese dynasty, a collection of linked short stories and a debut…

2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award assessed

A critical assessment of the shortlist and winner of Australia’s most prestigious literary award, The Miles Franklin Literary Award. Kate and Cassie are joined by guests, scholar and literary biographer (and former judge of the MFLA) Bernadette Brennan; and critic and publisher, Geordie Williamson.…

Writer Winnie Dunn on identity and the meaning of homecoming

Winnie Dunn is the General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement. Here she tells the story of how family and writing brought her home to Tonga, and gave Winnie the power to launch herself into the world on her own terms. Winnie grew up between her father and stepmother's house and the home of her …

NTWF 2025 - Past Perfect

What myths about the past prevail? How does the past inform our present? And how do writers contextualise their work in time? In Sharlene Allsopp's essay Glitter and Guts the author butts up against the erasure of Aboriginal ANZACs, while Winnie Dunn's story Sissies and Bros time-travels to an ad…

What's In Your Kete? Winnie Dunn Part 2

We're back with part two of our catch up with Winnie Dunn. From taking a look behind the scenes at the story, themes and characters of Winnie's novel Dirt Poor Islanders, to discussing Winnie's work helping Pasifika writers in the Sydney area become published writers, we're going deeper into Winni…

What's In Your Kete? Winnie Dunn Part 1

In this special two part episode we're joined by award winning Tongan Australian author and creative Winnie Dunn. Based in Western Sydney, Winnie shares about her early years growing up in Mt Druit, how the women in her family shaped her as a storyteller and her involvement as a poet, editor and c…

Queer Stories

  Happy Pride! While Pride shouldn’t just be confined to a month, one of our audio producers described this time of year  as “ ...  a breath let go that you didn't know you were holding.”  This episode is for everyone, but especially for those who have been waiting to exhale and looking forward …

Outside islanders: author Winnie Dunn on representation in publishing

Winnie Dunn became the first Tongan-Australian to publish a novel with her 2024 debut Dirt Poor Islanders, a coming-of-age story about a Tongan-Australian girl growing up in Western Sydney. Now she has been invited to give the 2026 Ray Mathew Lecture at the National Library of Australia, and she pr…