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.
“I go ooh ooh, you go ah ah,” – The Veronicas, “Untouched”
From tender to tantalising, funny to forthright, sweaty to sweet, sex writing runs a gamut of style, genre, voice and purpose. 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.
Hosted by wet dreamz journal
This event will be AUSLAN interpreted
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Wednesday 23 June, 8.30-9.30pm AEST
Free, bookings essential
Online, via Zoom
Tuesday Atzinger is an aspiring writer, poet and activist. Their work explores themes of social justice, culture, blackness, gender, sexuality and disability.
In 2020 a pair of quarantined and slutty poets realised that some of their best work was too explicit for most conventional literary journals. Together they created Wet Dreamz, a small journal for literary erotica and sexy artwork.
Once referred to as “young queen” by Roxane Gay on Twitter, Ana Maria Gomides is a Virgo who can’t drive.
Laura McPhee-Browne is a writer, social worker, and counsellor living in Melbourne, on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her debut novel, CHERRY BEACH, was published by Text Publishing in February 2020, and was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing as part of the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Jinghua Qian is a writer, poet, critic, and with Liz Crash, co-creator of Underfoot, a series of virtual multimedia tours uncovering the secret histories of Footscray. Eir work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, Melbourne Writers’ Festival, and 3CR Community Radio.
Emily is a young single mother with connections in the sex work industry and lots of emotional intelligence
Brodie Turner is a writer, performer, and consent advocate, living in the world as a trans woman, currently on stolen Wurundjeri country.
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