The EWF Blog

We are delighted to announce our 2026 festival will run 10-18 September, from our home in Melbourne with events in the city, outer suburbs, interstate and broadcast online.

At the 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival, EWF X Textile: An Exhibition saw an array of artists come together to fuse textile tradition with verbal and written storytelling. Relive this exhibition!

Revisit EWF25 with this special episode of 3CR Community Radio, where three artists extract and examine the themes of traditional, cultural folk songs through an intersectional lens.

The 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival is one week away! As the festival gets closer, we sat down with EWF's Associate Producer Kanika Chopra to learn more about what goes into programming a national literary festival, for writers and by writers.

This year, EWF refreshes it's look not only with a new festival and new festival artwork, but also with a brand-new logo. Learn all about EWF's new look, a collaboration between our team, Festival Designer Selena Repanis and DUM DUM STUDIO.