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.
Log in for an evening of funny, meaningful and joyful readings to help get us through the apocalypse. Host Anthea Yang proposes that joy and poetry can be counter-cultural acts of resistance – an interruption of constant consumption, production and crises. These artists from around the continent will explore this from their own intimate spaces.
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Dakota Feirer is a Bundjalung man living upon Dharawal and Yuin Lands. As a young poet, Dakota has performed for live audiences including Yours and Owls Festival and the Museum of Contemporary.
Lou Garcia-Dolnik is a poet and editor working on unceded Gadigal land.
Caitlin McGregor is a writer, editor, critic and library worker. You can find her work in a range of publications, including Overland Literary Journal, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, The Guardian, Going Down Swinging, The Big Issue, and Voiceworks.
Brooke Scobie is a queer Goorie woman, single mum, emerging writer, and community worker. Brooke was born and bred on Bidjigal country and now lives on Darkinjung land.
Anthea Yang is a writer and poet from Naarm/Melbourne. Her work lies at the intersection of place, identity and connection, through the lens of the diasporic experience, and has appeared in Baby Teeth Journal, Djed Press, Going Down Swinging and Voiceworks, among others.
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.
Commemorate the opening of the 18th iteration of Emerging Writers’ Festival with an evening of storytelling and celebration. Four incredible First Nations women come together with words and music to set the stage for 11 days of celebration, learnin...
EWF invites you to commemorate our 18th birthday with a stunning line-up of artists and friends, old and new.
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.
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