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.
Log in for an evening of funny, meaningful and joyful readings to help get us through the apocalypse. Host Anthea Yang proposes that joy and poetry can be counter-cultural acts of resistance – an interruption of constant consumption, production and crises. These artists from around the continent will explore this from their own intimate spaces.
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Dakota Feirer is a Bundjalung man living upon Dharawal and Yuin Lands. As a young poet, Dakota has performed for live audiences including Yours and Owls Festival and the Museum of Contemporary.
Lou Garcia-Dolnik is a poet and editor working on unceded Gadigal land.
Caitlin McGregor is a writer, editor, critic and library worker. You can find her work in a range of publications, including Overland Literary Journal, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, The Guardian, Going Down Swinging, The Big Issue, and Voiceworks.
Brooke Scobie is a queer Goorie woman, single mum, emerging writer, and community worker. Brooke was born and bred on Bidjigal country and now lives on Darkinjung land.
Anthea Yang is a writer and poet from Naarm/Melbourne. Her work lies at the intersection of place, identity and connection, through the lens of the diasporic experience, and has appeared in Baby Teeth Journal, Djed Press, Going Down Swinging and Voiceworks, among others.
Join these amazing sex worker writers from across so-called Australia as they share their stories of losing and creating sex worker spaces and navigating between hyper-visibility and invisibility.
Experimenting with form, a multi-talented, multi-disciplinary group of emerging artists gather to imagine the not-so-far-flung future of the planet in this special digital event.
Join us to celebrate the launch of Đất Nước Library with four different Naarm-based Vietnamese artists who will read and respond to texts from the collection.
Take a journey to the perhaps not-so-distant future with a lineup of brilliant First Nations talent. As technology continues to disrupt systems, these artists contemplate the collision of human and machine lives and what it all means for culture and...
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