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.
We’re celebrating some of our favourite comic artists by showcasing an eclectic selection of their creations. Browse our online gallery during the festival to see their visual works.
Check out the online exhibition here.
Presented in partnership with Express Media.
Ash is a Meanjin based artist who loves to draw.
T-Dog eXtreme is a part-time artist and full-time legend, with one of those heckin’ great backgrounds in game design.
Samuel Luke Beatty is an artist who works across traditional and digital illustration, creating prints, artist books, and embroidery works.
My name is Madi and I am a Meanjin/Brisbane based comic artist and illustrator!
Poet, prose and smut writer, my work centres on stories from the margins
Naomi Segal is an artsworker making comics, zines, installations, essays and collaborations from unceded Darug and Gundungurra lands (Blue Mountains, NSW).
Throughout EWF21, go on an amazing race to discover poetry across the city of Port Phillip. Head out on a treasure hunt to collect all five poems.
Hear two poets read their reworkings of ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar to launch the new chapbook, Transforming My Country, from Australian Poetry.
What does your love sound like? Six writers dedicate silly little love songs to the people and objects of their affections. In these accompanying vignettes, they share stories of when music has made them lovesick, lovey-dovey or lovestruck.
Three artists toy with the concept of junk mail and present playful creations that surprise and delight.
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