Free, Online & Special Event

2021 Program Launch: The Words That Shaped Us

What are the books that shaped you? Come and celebrate the texts that have influenced our lives literally and literarily, alongside the reveal of the jam-packed 2021 Emerging Writers’ Festival program.

This special launch event will feature festival artists Mia Nie, Luke Patterson, Yamiko Marama and Olivia Muscat. Join them as they share favourite passages and personal reflections on the formative texts that shaped their paths as readers, writers and human beings. EWF’s Artistic Director Ruby Rose Pivet-Marsh and Program Coordinator Millie Baylis will also share some of this year’s festival highlights across both in-person and online literary events, to help prepare you for a new winter full of words.

Presented in partnership with The Wheeler Centre

This event will be AUSLAN interpreted

This is a free event that will take place live at The Wheeler Centre, as well as livestreamed via their website and right here!

Featuring...

Millie Baylis

Millie Baylis is a writer, editor and arts worker, and the current program coordinator for the Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Yamiko Marama

Yamiko Marama is a writer, therapist and food truck owner from Naarm, Melbourne.

Olivia Muscat

Olivia Muscat writes about disability, the arts and random things that pop into her head. Her writing features in the anthologies Meet Me at the Intersection, Women of a Certain Rage, and Growing Up Disabled in Australia.

Mia Nie

Mia Nie is a Chinese-Australian comic artist, zine-maker, and award-nominated ex-poet. Her work explores the complexities, contradictions, and deeply felt desires of transgender subjectivity.

Luke Patterson

Luke Patterson is a Gamilaroi poet, folklorist and educator living on Gadigal lands. He is interested in the ways bioregional identities and consciousness are expressed through localised and vernacular forms.

Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh

Ruby-Rose is a writer and producer living, working and creating on Wurundjeri land. Ruby is the Artistic Director and co-CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the co-founder of the Latinx Arts Collective Yo Soy.