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.
EWF has paired up with Make It Up Club to bring you an evening of readings and musical performances!
Now in its 26th year, Make It Up Club has been instrumental in illuminating some of the best experimental voices in local music and performance with their weekly, intimate, improvisational shows.
Enjoy an evening of readings and performances that play on the threshold of music and literature.
Event sold out? Join the Waitlist HERE.
Wheelchair, service animal, onsite parking bay
Friday 6 September, 7:30PM
narrm ngarrgu Library
141 Therry St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Manisha Anjali is the author of Naag Mountain (Giramondo, 2024). She is the founder of Neptune, a research and documentation platform for dreams, visions and hallucinations. She is one half of Whelk, an ambient music project with multi-instrumentalist Genevieve Fry.
Whelk is an ambient music collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Genevieve Fry and artist Manisha Anjali. Whelk is made up of ethereal harp, textural percussion and otherworldly incantations.
Genevieve Fry is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Naarm. Interested in exploratory music drawing inspiration from the natural world, their soundscapes encourage an inward journey touching on deep time, memory and sense of place. In both solo and collaborative contexts across the experimental, contemporary, and improvisation scenes, Genevieve layers textures of harp, recorder, synthesizer and voice.
Genevieve is the co-founder of Eastmint artist run studios, label and performance space which focuses on presenting and supporting music that promotes deep listening from a diverse range of artists across all genres.
Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on unceded Wangal Country. His debut book, ‘rock flight’ will be released in September 2024.
Raghav Lakshman is a Naarm based artist specializing in experimental bass and glitch music, Braek’s left-field broken beat compositions are painstakingly crafted through reconstructed modular synth patches, samplers and analogue oscillations. The end result a complex microcosm of glitch heavy alien sonics defying genres and pushing boundaries of electronic process and composition.
Jordan Prosser is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker from Victoria. His short story ‘Eleuterio Cabrera’s Beautiful Game’ won the Peter Carey Short Story Award in 2022 and was published in Meanjin. ‘Big Time’ is his first novel.
Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Review of Books, Hyperallergic, Catapult, The Age, Disclaimer Journal, Cordite Poetry Review and Overland, amongst many others. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging is her debut book. She lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land.
Is the world becoming unreal, or hyper-real? Sink into this series of audio surrealist works, from artists concerned with the obsolescence of memory, AI, and the relationship between creativity, and being chronically online.
This digital writing exhibition is an invitation into stillness. Four poets experiment with communicating the wordless, drawing upon language as an imperfect signpost towards the shimmering presence that exists beneath and beyond all things.
Four artists from UWRF and EWF appear in this transcontinental literary sound board. Investigating UWRF’s “powers within humans” (live, speak, think), these writers are called upon to artistically represent their connection to such powers.
You’ve heard of, and likely have ventured on a pub crawl, but how about a lit mag crawl? EWF presents our first ever journal crawl.
Subscribe to our email newsletter: