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.
Save your appetite for a special six-course storytelling experience, enjoyed from your very own dining table. These talented storytellers will tantalize your tastebuds with tales, as they each cook and share their favourite meal and the personal stories behind them.
Come for a night of warm and funny stories about food, and leave with a PDF booklet of each of the writer’s recipes to cook, share and enjoy afterwards.
Hosted by Sam van Zweden
A Meal at the Table is a live storytelling event, hosted via Zoom.
To ensure the event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed a Zoom link and password 30 minutes prior to the event start time. Please check your email (including that pesky junk email folder).
Ticket bookings will cease 1 hour before the event starts.
You can download Zoom for free here.
Hajer is an Iraqi-Australian writer that is trying to figure it all out. From screenplays to short stories to essays, she explores themes of womanhood, dysfunctional families and every now and then she’ll tell you how she feels about that trending topic on Twitter.
MJ Bakewell is an audio producer and writer living in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). She writes creative non-fiction, makes radio stories, and has a background in law.
Cindy Yuqing Jiang is a Chinese writer, performer, and theatremaker based in Naarm, on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her work has been featured in the Australian Poetry Journal, the Melbourne Fringe Festival, the Australian Multilingual Writing Project, Multicultural Arts Victoria, and more.
Martyn Reyes is a Filipino-Australian writer, working on Gadigal land. He holds a BA in Communication (Journalism) from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Panda Wong is a poet and editor who lives on unceded land, so-called Melbourne/Narrm. She is an Associate Editor at The Suburban Review and has been published in Runway Journal, Rabbit, Sick Leave, Liminal, and more. She is also a 2020 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow.
Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based writer interested in memory, food, mental health and the body. Her writing has been published by The Saturday Paper, ABC Life, Meanjin, The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Cordite, The Sydney Review of Books, The Wheeler Centre and others.
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