The Emerging Writers’ Festival acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, learn and work, and pays respect to their Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

 

EWF celebrates the history and contemporary creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.

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Raphael Farmer

Raphael Farmer is an author originally from the island of Mauritius and now based in Perth, Western Australia. His short story ‘Island Boy’ has appeared in Wave After Wave published by the Centre For Stories. In 2019, he participated in the Digital Writers’ Festival in Melbourne. Raphael’s background as a gay man raised Muslim in a multicultural island nation has influenced his storytelling. He is driven to explore the intersection of sexual, social and cultural identities in his writing, with his fiction often revolving around characters undertaking a transformation or change in their identity.

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