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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Ari Mills

Ari Mills is a proud Kuku Yalanji and Nangu writer and poet. They incorporate their love for community, Queerness and Black liberation in their writing to come to explore Black Queer love stories in truth telling. Ari aims to create love spaces for mob to share and grow with each other in showcasing our mobs’ creativity and innovation. Their work has been published in Nangamay Mana Djurali (Dream Gather Grow), an Indigenous Queer Anthology, and in Australian Poetry’s Best of Australian Poems 2023.