Winnie Dunn

Winnie Dunn is a Tongan-Australian writer from Mount Druitt. She is General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and editor of acclaimed anthologies including Brownface (Cordite, 2018), Sweatshop Women (2019), Straight-Up Islander (SBS, 2020) and Another Australia (Affirm Press, 2022). Her debut novel Dirt Poor Islanders (Hachette, 2024) won the 2025 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists Award and the 2025 Creative Australia Kathleen Mitchell Award and was shortlisted for two NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.