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 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.
Early-bird passes are now available for this year's National Writers' Conference, where publishing professionals from around the continent come together at The Wheeler Centre, 13-14 Sept 2025.
Emerging Writers Festival and Dublin City of Literature are accepting applications for PenPals, a virtual meeting space. Ten writers from Melbourne and ten writers from Dublin will meet over four sessions in a guided, virtual room during September, a...
Join the EWF Team at this special launch event, a tour of their 2025 program highlights, core offerings and deep cuts – including transformative workshops, immersive conversations, powerful readings and opportunities to simply write, be and share w...
Unsure if you can apply to be part of the 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival? Read on the find out all about to application process.
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