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.
To kick off the Conference, our four festival Ambassadors will share their four favourite rules for writing. Whether you’re emerging, emerged or somewhere in between, these gems of advice are bound to get you inspired.
Hosted by Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh
‘4 x4 Rules for Writing’ is part of the National Writers’ Conference, a one-day online gathering of emerging writers on Zoom.
Check out the full Conference program here.
To ensure the event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed a Zoom link and password on the day of the event. Please check your email (including that pesky junk email folder). Ticket bookings will cease 1 hour before the Conference starts.
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Tony Birch is the author of three novels: The White Girl, Ghost River, and Blood. He is also the author of Shadowboxing and three short story collections, ‘Father’s Day’, ‘The Promise’ and ‘Common People’.
Claire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar woman whose ancestral country is in the South Coast of Western Australia. Her debut novel Terra Nullius, published in Australia and the USA, written on a second-hand iPad in a caravan, won the Norma K. Hemming Award and a black&write fellowship and was Shortlisted for the Stella Prize and an Aurealis Award.
Elena Gomez is a poet and editor living in Melbourne. She is the author of Admit the Joyous Passion of Revolt (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020), Body of Work (Cordite Books, 2018) and a number of chapbooks and pamphlets, including the recently published Crushed Silk (Rosa Press, 2020).
Sisonke Msimang is a writer whose work focusses on money, power and sex. She is the author of two books – Always Another Country: a memoir of exile and home; and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela. She has published widely, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Newsweek and the Guardian.
Ruby-Rose is a writer and producer living, working and creating on Wurundjeri land. Ruby is the Artistic Director and co-CEO of the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the co-founder of the Latinx Arts Collective Yo Soy.
This panel of grant recipients and arts workers will share their insider tips and tricks on writing a stellar grant application, creating a realistic budget, and what sort of opportunities are out there to help pay for your time to write.
Meet some of the booksellers, editors and other literary changemakers who are working to build a better literary future.
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