Thursday 5 September – Sunday 15 September
Free, Online, Panel & EWF X
EWF X Awesome Black: STAUNCH
Awesome Black is a creative social enterprise, developing original First Nations talent and unique storytelling content across a variety of mediums.
This year Awesome Black has collaborated with the Emerging Writers Festival to commission a special EWF24 edition of STAUNCH. Read here!
Featuring...
Skye Cusack
Skye is a queer & neurodivergent Dulgubarra-Yidinji writer living in Naarm. She founded BluSkye Marketing in early 2023 (feeling very clever for coming up with the name) with a vision for an accessible First Nations owned marketing agency. Outside of running BluSkye Marketing, you may find her around Naarm performing yarns that make you laugh, cry and wonder why she’s admitting these things to a live audience.
Travis De Vries
Travis De Vries, a Gamilaroi and Darug multidisciplinary artist, is the driving force behind Awesome Black as its founder & managing director.
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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.
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