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We are Australia's oldest independent Indigenous publishing house in Australia. Based in Broome, in the far north west of Western Australia, Magabala Books is also the most remote publishing house in the world!

Since our incorporation in 1990, Magabala Books has long been recognised as a producer of quality Indigenous Australian literature receiving accolades in many prestigious awards.

As one of the most respected small publishing houses in Australia, Magabala Books work as a non-for-profit organisation to preserve, develop and promote Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

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Win a monthly prize pack of Magabala Books by taking part in our new competition, Lost in a Magabala moment. To enter, take a photo of someone Lost in a Magabala moment (reading a Magabala book) and either upload it to the Magabala Books Facebook page, email it to marketing@magabala.com or post it to Magabala Books, PO Box 668, Broome WA 6725.

NB: By entering you are giving permission for your photo to be uploaded to the Magabala Books Facebook page. The winning photo will be published in the Broome Advertiser each month.

National Awards recognise Magabala Books title, Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon

Congratulations! The Children’s Book Council of Australia and Speech Pathology Australia recently announced the winning titles for the 2011 Australian Children’s Book Awards.

Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloon by One Arm Point Remote Community School was chosen by the CBCA Book of the Year Judges as HONOUR BOOK CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR: EVE POWNALL AWARD FOR INFORMATION BOOKS! It was also choosen as the inaugural Best Book for Language & Literacy Development - Indigenous Children (approx. 8 - 12 years).

The CBCA Awards Ceremony is eagerly awaited by booksellers, educators and publishers each year. These prestigious awards recognise the best in Australian children’s publishing and are highly competitive with the judging process taking place over a period of ten months.

‘Our World: Bardi Jaawi Life at Ardiyooloone is the result of a remote Aboriginal community working together with the team at Magabala Books to produce a beautiful books that informs, educates and entertains. We are very proud of this title and congratulate our creators on this honour,’ she said.

Edie Wright, Manager of Aboriginal Education at the Kimberley District Education Office, congratulated the Principal and staff at the One Arm Point Remote Community School saying, ‘It is an outstanding result of what happens when you respectfully work with community and a great example for other schools to follow. Well done.’

The winners of the CBCA Awards were announced in late August 2011 and the winners of the Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards were announced in late October 2011.

Congratulations to Magabala's own Publishing Assistant Jacqui Wright for taking the honours at this years T.A.G. Hungerford Awards. Jacqui is the winner of the 2010 T.A.G. Hungerford Award for her unpublished manuscript, The Telling. She now joins an elite group of literary talents as the 10th winner of the Hungerford Award, receiving a $12,000 cash prize jointly contributed by writingWA and New Edition Bookshop, in addition to a publishing contract with Fremantle Press. The Telling was chosen from a record number of 95 manuscripts entered into the 2010 Award and has been described by Georgia Richter, Adult Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction Publisher at Fremantle Press, as "a work of extraordinary depth and thoughtfulness"