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.
Get ready to storm the city with Write-ability! Listen to writers from the newly appointed Storming the City cohort as they discuss craft, community, and the city and encourage the next generation of metropolitan-based writers with a disability.
This event will be AUSLAN interpreted and live captioned
Presented in partnership with Writers Victoria
Watch this event here or on YouTube
Roz Bellamy is the online editor at Archer Magazine. Their writing has appeared in The Big Issue, Going Down Swinging, the Guardian, Junkee, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, SBS, The Huffington Post, the Sydney Morning Herald and in Black Inc.’s ‘Growing Up Queer in Australia’.
Heidi Everett is a writer, multimedia artist, producer, mental health recovery advocate, social impact facilitator, and projects and events innovator from Melbourne/on Wurrundjeri, Australia.
Andy Jackson’s first book of poems, Among the Regulars, was shortlisted for the 2011 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and his collection, Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold, was shortlisted for the 2020 John Bray Poetry Award.
Gemma Mahadeo moved to Australia in 1987. Their written work and multimedia work has been published nationally, both online and in print.
Join us to celebrate the launch of Đất Nước Library with four different Naarm-based Vietnamese artists who will read and respond to texts from the collection.
In an evening of decidedly and deliciously queer erotica readings, these artists tease and taunt, tearing apart the concepts of writing about sex, romance and human connections.
Hear from some of the best up- and-coming literary stars as they dazzle us After Dark.
Join these amazing sex worker writers from across so-called Australia as they share their stories of losing and creating sex worker spaces and navigating between hyper-visibility and invisibility.
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