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.
Calling all amazing babes! We are gathering some of our most adored artists to honour the babes that helped shape their lives in this intimate night of joyful storytelling. Wonder in admiration as we celebrate the many wonderful humans that our artists have chosen to applaud – from the fictional to the foundational and beyond.
Includes the announcement of the winner of the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction.
Hosted by Stone Motherless Cold
This event will be AUSLAN interpreted
Amazing Babes is a live storytelling event, hosted via Zoom.
To ensure the event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed a Zoom link 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, if not sold out prior.
You can download Zoom for free here.
Tuesday 22 June, 7-8.30pm AEST
$20 Full / $15 Concession
Online, via Zoom
Dr. Denise Chapman is a counternarrative storyteller, spoken word poet, and critical autoethnographer who lectures in children’s literature, early literacy, and inclusive children’s media at Monash University.
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and teacher from the Murrumbidgee River in south west NSW. She currently works at the University of Melbourne.
Yamiko Marama is a writer, therapist and food truck owner from Naarm, Melbourne.
Stone Motherless Cold is an Arrernte gem, a crystalline trophy posing as a humanoid. Stone Cold is a drag artist, performance artist, producer and part of the Motherless Collective.
Amarachi Okorom is a Nigerian born Igbo actor, spoken word poet and emerging playwright. She grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2013 she moved to Melbourne, where she studied and graduated with a Bachelor of Technology.
Asiel Adan Sanchez is a certified chingona living in Naarm/Melbourne. Born and raised in Mexico, their work is an attempt to reconcile culture, race, gender and sexuality.
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