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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Laura McPhee-Browne

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. Her short fiction and creative non-fiction has been published widely in Australia. She is currently working on a second novel, and a collection of ‘homage’ or ‘echo’ stories, for her favourite women writers.

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