Victoria Manifold is a writer and trade union worker from County Durham, now living on Gadigal land. She has been shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize twice, was a runner up in the 2019 Berlin Writing Prize, shortlisted for the 2021 Desperate Literature Prize and a runner-up in the 2022 Mslexia Short Story Prize. Her novel-in-progress, The Election of the Mayor, was shortlisted for the 2023 Richell Prize and longlisted for the 2023 Mslexia Novel Prize. In 2024 Wendy Erskine and Yan Ge selected her as the winner of the Short Fiction International Short Story Prize.
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Victoria Manifold
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Saturday 14 September, 4PM
Journal Crawl
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.
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Thursday 5 September, 7PM
Opening Night: LIB[ERA]TION
To mark the opening EWF24, Guest Curator Mackenzie Lee asks: What does an Era of Liberation look like, and how is writing both a tool and an act of liberation, for the self and the collective?
Wednesday 11 September, 6:30PM
Chapter Three: Where to from here?
Part of our Chapters series. This penultimate chapter will equip you with advice and wisdom about sustaining enthusiasm, building resilience, and how to keep writing long-term, even through the inevitable lows and highs.
Thursday 12 September
Nocturnal: Earthshattering
Words and sounds are the mediums we turn to, to channel these transformative events. Join us Melbourne Museum to hear stories and tributes to experiences that rooted these artists to the earth or led them to transcend it.
Saturday 14 September, 7PM
Body Curious
Join these body-curious artists for a night of performances, devoted to sensorial writing and self-discovery and expression through the body.
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