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.
Writing to conventions and reader expectations is valuable but at times genres can be restrictive or difficult to pin down. What happens when the line between genre and literary fiction is blurred? Join these writers as they share their process and experiences of writing across genre and forms.
Hosted by Declan Fry
Presented in partnership with Readings State Library
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Grace Chan is a Viva la Novella, Aurealis and Norma K Hemming Award-nominated speculative fiction writer and doctor. Her writing explores brains, minds, technology, the future, and narrative identity.
Declan Fry is a writer, poet, and essayist. Born on Wongatha country in Kalgoorlie, he has been awarded a Peter Blazey Fellowship, the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Award for memoir, and shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize.
Jamie Marina Lau is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island and Gunk Baby. More info and links to previous work: jm-lau.com
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