Artist Call-Out

The 2023 Emerging Writers’ Festival Artist Call-out is now open for submissions – click here to apply. Please make sure you read over our tips, tricks and FAQ here before applying! Applications close 5pm AEDT, Wednesday 14 December.

Each year, EWF opens a call-out for writers and storytellers of all kinds to submit an expression of interest in participating in the Festival. Applicants are invited to share not only their individual work, but their ideas for the events, topics and conversations that they want to be included within the festival.

Diversity, inclusivity and accessibility are the core values that underpin EWF’s artistic program, offering a unique opportunity for writers of all ages and backgrounds, representing all genres and styles of storytelling, to participate in and engage with.

Each year we program artists from around Australia, and are committed to selecting 25% of these from the open artist call-out. As always we have budget to fly some artists to Melbourne for the festival, so we welcome interstate and regional applications.

We are really keen on ideas that play and experiment with the digital space and storytelling. You can see some examples of the things we are interested in by checking out previous Digital Writers’ Festival programs as well as our 2022 festival program!

Want to know more? We’ll be running an Artist Info session on November 14, when applications open. Be sure to tune in live, or watch back. We’ll be sharing all our tips in a blog post following the session.