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.

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3 June, 2016

You Might As Well Live: Boon Companions

We can promise some very exciting live music and spoken word performances, from very familiar faces that will make your eyes go fluttery and your underthings catch aflame. Yes there will be more than one room. Yes there will be the chance for audienc...


28 May, 2016

God bless the internet: Michelle Law

"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...


27 May, 2016

Sticks and Stones: Telia Nevile

"I’m expecting a no-holds-barred, knock-down-drag-out clash between two passionate teams who share a love of language, even as they attempt to use it to disembowel each other’s arguments."