Library says it will review all its awards after last-minute cancellation of ceremony to present black&write! fellowship to Karen Wyld
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The State Library of Queensland has suspended its national Indigenous fellowships and withdrawn the award to one of this year’s recipients over a social media post about Gaza.
The First Nations writer Karen Wyld, who now writes under the name K A Ren Wyld, was stripped of her Creative Australia-funded $15,000 black&write! fellowship, less than five hours before it was to have been awarded to her, over comments she made on social media in October about the conflict in Gaza.
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