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.
Fiction has an uncanny ability to defamiliarise, turning ordinary streets and locations into sites of strangeness and revelation. In this intimate evening workshop, surrealist writer Raeden Richardson will traverse writing that constantly defies easy categorisation, drawing upon visual art to help you develop a new vocabulary for writing to the edge of reality.
Want to attend all three Writers’ Salon sessions, check out the ‘Extras’ option below!
Wheelchair, Service Animal, Quiet Room (Reception/Level 3 Library), Hearing Loop, Accessible toilets
Wednesday 11 September, 6:30PM
The Wheeler Centre
Workshop Space Level 1, 176 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, VIC
Raeden Richardson was raised in Melbourne and graduated the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and the American Australian Association. He has been an artist-in-residence at La Napoule Art Foundation and Yaddo. His writing has appeared in Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings, The Age, Strangely Enough and New Australian Fiction. His debut novel, The Degenerates, is forthcoming in September 2024.
Join poet, artist and somatic facilitator Shannon May Powell in exploring how pleasure and desire can unfurl on the page to enhance your storytelling.
Join poet, writer, and educator Hasib Hourani for an evening of poetry, and its power to preserve culture, provoke change, and speak truth to power.
Dress up in your phantasmic finest for an evening of spine-tingling tales, from writers and ghouls alike.
How can we bring artistry into our daily lives, beyond our writing practice? From slowing down and surrendering to the process, to imbuing our rituals and routines with beauty and curiosity.
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