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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Veronica Heritage-Gorrie

Veronica Heritage-Gorrie is a proud Gunai/Kurnai woman, the author of ‘Black and Blue’, published by Scribe Publications. She is passionate in non-fiction memoir and is excited to extend this to film writing and writing Children’s books.

Ronnie’s achievements include:
• A recipient of the Creative Victoria’s First Peoples funding program for the writing of ‘Nullung’.
• Recipient of The Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship 2020.
• Recipient of the Inaugural First Nation Writer’s Residency for the Australian Council for the Arts 2021
• and the recipient of the First Nation Writer’s Fellowship for Varuna, the National Writers House 2021.

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