Dr Carissa Lee is a Noongar actor and writer born on Wemba-Wemba country. Carissa’s writing has featured in The Guardian, Witness Performance, Australasian Drama Studies, Red Room Poetry, The Saturday Paper, Junkee, and The Conversation. Carissa is currently a commissioning editor at IndigenousX, while completing an Indigenous Research fellowship at Swinburne University.
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Sunday 15 September, 7PM
Closing Night: BANQUET
Gather beneath stained glass for the final event of EWF24: an etheral spring banquet.
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Friday 6 September, 6:30PM
Chapter One: Unblocking Creativity
The first of four Chapters, this workshop is all about establishing a writing practice.

Saturday 14 September, 11AM
Poster Poems
Join poet Alison J Barton and Troppo Print Studio for a hands-on workshop all about different approaches to visual poetry. During the workshop, participants will have the chance to add to a collaborative poem, which will be turned into a paste up poster by Troppo Print Studio, to be unveiled at the end of the workshop. The workshop coincides with the ‘Future Foundations’ exhibition curated by Troppo Print Studio, which celebrates the past, present and future of printmaking and is currently showing at Counihan Gallery.

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.

Friday 13 September
Morning Pages: Sweaty Palms, Fear in Fiction
What does it feel like to face fear on the page? From embodying emotion, to revisiting the stuff of nightmares, these writers discuss what fear is, and how it can propel one’s writing.
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