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.
Who and what comes out to play when the sun goes down? Hear from some of the best up-and-coming literary stars as they dazzle us After Dark.
Presented in partnership with the City of Greater Dandenong
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Wai-Mun Mah lives, writes and edits from Melbourne/Naarm. Her work has been published in Pidgeonholes, tenderness lit, Porridge, mutiny!, and Express Media.
Jesse Oliver is a writer and performer of kind of slammy, often fantastical and optimistically emotional performance poetry.
Sammaneh Pourshafighi is a Queer genderfluid Muslim who arrived in Australia as a refugee after the Iranian Revolution. Her ancestral tribes originate from Oureh, Gilan, and Kurdistan.
Penny Smits is a writer, communications consultant, and education support worker who has won awards for short fiction and public relations. Her creative writing work explores the intersection of loneliness, isolation, and segregation. Of Māori (Ngāpuhi /Te Rawara), Aboriginal (Bunganditj –Poturuwutj/Tatiara), and Pākehā (European) descent, Penny currently lives in Melbourne.
Christy Tan lives on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm/ Melbourne. Her poems have appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, The Suburban Review, Digital Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers’ Festival and Emerging Writers’ Festival Vignettes Podcast. She has forthcoming work with SEVENTH Gallery’s Emerging Writers Program and WRITING & CONCEPTS: Lecture Series.
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