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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Hana Pera Aoake

Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Ngaati Hinerangi) is an writer and artist living on unceded Kai Tahu and Waitaha whenua. They completed an MFA at Massey university Te Kunenga ki Puurehuroa in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 2018 and was a recent participant in the ISP programme at Maumaus des escola artes in Lisbon, Portugal (2020). Currently they co-organise Kei te pai press with Morgan Godfery and co-edit Tupuranga journal with Faith Wilson. Hana’s first book, A bathful of Kawakawa and hot water was recently released on Compound press.

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