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.
Appearing In

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.
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Thursday 5 September – Sunday 15 September
Wall of Echo
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.

Saturday 7 September, 3PM
Queer Zines
Join accomplished comics artist and writer Mia Nie for an inspiring Queer Zine Making Workshop. Experiment with visual language and expression, share stories, and form new connections in a fun, supportive environment. Learn new zine-making techniques, from content creation to layout design.

Wednesday 11 September, 6:30PM
Coming of Age in the Wild West
What does it mean to write the place you have lived? How do you harness the streets you have walked, and reflect back the people around you with care and consideration? In this special discussion event, these western suburbs writers come together to talk about the place, and the responsibility of writing it.

Sunday 8 September, 4:15PM
Richell Prize Showcase
We can’t believe it’s already been ten years since the Richell Prize began. To mark this milestone, we’re holding a showcase with our friends at Hachette, celebrating the stellar alumni of the past and anticipating the incredible writers to come.
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