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.
Drawing from personal history alongside archival research and set against the context of immigration and the anti-apartheid struggle, the exhibition forefronts Black sonics within liberation and migration movements of the African diaspora in Australia. Curated by Samira Farah in collaboration with Patrick Jonathan.
Presented in partnership with West Space
Samira is an independent art producer and radio presenter from Sydney.
Patrick Jonathan is a Sydney based radio broadcaster.
In collaboration with Melbourne Theatre Company, five emerging writers will develop five new performance works over a series of intensive workshops with director Isabella Vadiveloo, and dramaturg Morgan Rose.
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.
Join Next Chapter recipient Mia Nie, her mentor Sarah Howell, Signal Boost participant Cherie Minniecon, and her mentor Timmah Ball, as they discuss the varied forms support for emerging writers and podcasters can take, and the unique qualities of me...
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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