Aboriginal writer, journalist and radio broadcaster Daniel Browning has taken up his First Nations-Writer-in-Residence fellowship at the University of Cambridge.  The role includes close links to a college and Trinity Hall will be Mr Browning’s home for the next three months.

The respected Australian poet and writer is only the second person to take up the fellowship after it was launched last year.

The Cambridge Australia First Nations Writer-in-Residence is a new fellowship program that offers a unique opportunity for an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writer or storyteller to spend time at the University of Cambridge.  The purpose of the fellowship is that the writer will produce original writing on a project that they have specified.

Daniel Browning is an experienced and highly respected First Nations journalist, radio broadcaster, writer and sound artist. Currently, he presents The Art Show on Radio National and is the Editor of Indigenous Radio with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), where he began his media career in 1994. A visual arts graduate, Daniel is also a widely published freelance writer on the arts and culture, with a particular focus on Australian Indigenous art. He is a former guest editor of Artlink Indigenous, an occasional series of the quarterly Australian contemporary arts journal. He is the inaugural curator of Blak Box, an award-winning, architect-designed sound pavilion commissioned by Western Sydney-based multiform arts company UTP to amplify the voices of First Nations artists and communities through live recorded storytelling. Daniel is a descendant of the Bundjalung and Kullilli peoples of far northern New South Wales and south-western Queensland.

Link to Trinity Hall website for further information: https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/first-nations-writer-in-residence-at-the-university-of-cambridge/