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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Yamiko Marama

Yamiko is a writer, therapist and food truck owner from Naarm, Melbourne. Yamiko is an inaugural recipient of The Next Chapter Fellowship with The Wheeler Centre and is a contributor to Growing Up Queer in Australia. Most recently Yamiko was the overall winner of the Lord Mayor Creative Writing Award 2020 for her story ‘Thirty- Six Hours a Year’. Photo by Stuart Spence.

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