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Blue Mountains Stories competition winners announced
David King’s tale of the devastation wreaked upon Narrow Neck in the 2019/2020 bushfires, Gunai Dhaura Mulanga, has won the Blue Mountains Stories: A Year Like No Other competition and its $1000 prize.
Mr. King, a proud Gundungurra man, wrote of bearing witness to tragedy and of daring to embrace hope. The judges remarked Mr. King’s story: “…offered a powerful and deeply personal look at the connection to Country and the importance of being a custodian of the land we walk on.”
“Being a Gundungurra Man I have a love for our natural world and our processes to care for it,” Mr. King said. “To express this about the fires and Country was exhilarating. To have these words acknowledged with the prize was humbling. It also gives me hope and encouragement. Yadhung jii.”