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

Natalie Williams

Natalie Williams is a contemporary fiction writer and filmmaker from Naarm, Melbourne. They are a 2024 Writers Victoria Storming The City Fellow, a past participant in Toolkits: Fiction (2023) & Toolkits: Digital Storytelling (2022) and a youth advisory committee member of Arts Access Victoria. Their work primarily focuses on identity, queerness, liminality and grief in its varied forms. Previously, Natalie has created works for Archer Magazine, Kill Your Darlings, Ramona Magazine, Melbourne Women in Film Festival, Rabelais Magazine, KOS Magazine, La Trobe Arts Festival and others.

Thursday 12 September, 11AM

State of Emergence

In this panel discussion, writers will touch on their respective experiences in the publishing industry: from pitching articles to writing residencies, the publishing process to getting paid for their work.