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The Emerging Writers’ Festival work, learn and play largely on the land of the Kulin nation, and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
EWF celebrates the history and creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.
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At the 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival, EWF X Textile: An Exhibition saw an array of artists come together to fuse textile tradition with verbal and written storytelling. Relive this exhibition!
Revisit EWF25 with this special episode of 3CR Community Radio, where three artists extract and examine the themes of traditional, cultural folk songs through an intersectional lens.
We are delighted, along with Hannah Richell and the Richell family, and in partnership with the Hachette Australia, to announce the longlist for the 2025 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.
The 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival is one week away! As the festival gets closer, we sat down with EWF's Associate Producer Kanika Chopra to learn more about what goes into programming a national literary festival, for writers and by writers.
Unfolded, a new podcast from the University of Melbourne, presents audio fictions from some of Australia’s favourite writers with in-depth interviews that go inside the stories’ inspiration and writing.
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