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.
The literary festival is a form by which we communicate to an audience, and gather together like-minded people. What we do with that form is entirely up to us. It is vital that programmers consider deeply the context in which we live, play, read and...
"My interpretation of What Right Do I Have changes depending on whether we’re talking about fiction or non-fiction. If we all wrote fiction based on things we had experienced ourselves, we wouldn’t have books like, and I’m casting a wide net of...
The wonder of women, diversity in publishing, sharing story. Festival artist Allison Whittaker talks about her appearance at the Emerging Writers' Festival this year.
The stuff of terror: ghosts, slugs, myki fines, and being a 13-year-old.
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