The EWF Blog

EOIs for EWF’s 2026 Guest Curator are now open! This is a curation opportunity with a provided stipend for an emerging First Nations creative, who is interested in getting hands-on experience in festival programming with the EWF Team, based out...

EWF's 2026 artist callout is now open! Check out the full details and our FAQs before applying...

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.