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.

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Building Worlds

The job of a speculative fiction writer is hefty – from looking at the present to projecting into the future and imagining what the world might look like. The world around us can provide foreshadows of what may be to come, and provides ripe material for writing new worlds. Join acclaimed author Claire G. Coleman as she explains the craft of building believable worlds in fiction, and what to reflect on when considering writing speculative futures.


How to attend this event

This session is part of the National Writers’ Conference, a one-day online gathering of emerging writers on Zoom.

To attend, you can buy a National Writers’ Conference Pass here to enjoy the full day of industry insights. 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, if not sold out prior.

You can download Zoom for free here.

Saturday 19 June, 3-4pm AEST

Access this session with a National Writers’ Conference pass 

Featuring...

Claire G. Coleman

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.