From her nan Stella May to her mother Amanda and all her cousins and aunties, Ms Reid says matriarchs are the backbone of a community.

It's those matriarchs Ms Reid is honouring in her upcoming children's book Our Matriarchs Matter.

Last week, the Gilgandra local was awarded Magabala Books' Daisy Utemorrah award for an unpublished manuscript of junior fiction. With it comes not only $15,000 but a publishing contract with the company.

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Our Matriarchs Matter is told through the eyes of a little Koori girl, who looks up to her matriarchs, as though they are the most powerful people on the planet. The girl explains to the reader how Aboriginal matriarchs are the keepers of stories, healers and more powerful than any politician.

It is the long line of matriarchs before her that Ms Reid is dedicating her book to, especially her late mother.

"They have forever shaped who I am and instilled a sense of pride within me as an Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman," Ms Reid said.

"I will never be ashamed of who I am because they taught me to stand proudly in the colour of my skin and my ancestry."

The author said it was her responsibility to the community to ensure those matriarchs were honoured.

The next generation will also play a role in the book as Ms Reid's niece Jakayla will be doing the illustrations.

Through the book, Ms Reid is hoping readers take away an important message.

"I want the world to know that First Nations matriarchs matter, that all black women matter, and to understand how integral they are to our communities, our survival and our existence," Ms Reid said.

"I want non-Indigenous Australians to challenge their own world view of Aboriginal women, and to truly understand to us as First Nations our women - know that we are powerful beyond measure.

"The truth is so much of this country was built off the backs of black women who were used as domestic servants, and we need to talk about this before we can move on as a nation in a positive way."

She's also hoping to inspire every child to tell their own story, regardless of their marks at school.

"I firmly believe that children should be given the ability to access their wildest imaginations because too often our children are judged by western standards or storytelling, which is limiting," Ms Reid said.

It's not the first time Ms Reid has shone a light on the importance of Aboriginal storytelling.

In April, she created the Instagram handle @Blackfulla_Bookclub with Merina Dutton as a way to share the books they were reading, while honouring the First Nation ancestors as the original storytellers.

In four months its grown to have more than 26,000 followers.

"To us, it is a culturally safe space to share blackfulla storytelling which happens in different ways to the western world that often values written form over oral storytelling," Ms Reid said.

"We try to make First Nations stories accessible in a safe way so that people who are ready to start their journey of truth telling of our nation can learn about the truth of our history."

Our Matriarchs Matter will be available in 2021.

"I can't wait to come back home to Gilgandra and do the book launch with Jakayla, my nan, my aunties and of course my mother in spirit," Ms Reid said.