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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Artist

N. J. Madden

N. J. Madden is a Naarm/Melbourne-based author and teacher. Madden worked a countless string of odd jobs from house-painting to retail to bookselling, before studying literature, history and education at university. His literary studies focused on eco-criticism, which heavily influences his writing. Madden’s debut novel, Laughing River, was shortlisted for the Unpublished Manuscript Award at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2024.

Friday 13 September, 5:30PM

Flight of the Bats

Join us, unplugged, at Fairfield Amphitheatre to hear readings that celebrate these motifs and more, while the foxes take flight overhead. A Spring staple, with a literary twist!