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.
Is the world becoming unreal, or hyper-real? Sink into this series of audio surrealist works, from artists concerned with the obsolescence of memory, AI, and the relationship between creativity, and being chronically online.
The Electric Sea by Elizabeth Bourke
Judgement Day by Katy Chan
Declamation by William Huang
Listen back to the premiere of these works (aired on 11/09/24) on 3RRR show Literati Glitterati!
Closed Captions, keyboard navigable, break time
Elizabeth Bourke (she/her) is a young writer living on unceded Dharawal land. Her writing tangles nature, technology and queerness. Her work has been featured in Fremantle Press’ 2023 queer anthology ‘An Unexpected Party’, as well as Island, Voiceworks and Verandah. She was a finalist in The Age/Sydney Morning Herald 2023 Young Essayist Prize and highly commended for Express Media’s 2022 Catalyse Nonfiction Prize. She has appeared at the Emerging Writers’ Festival and National Young Writers’ Festival.
Katy Chan (PhD, Anthropology) is an early-career researcher and writer with her areas of interest in histories of colonialisms and (post)colonial subjectivity formation in Asia. She is the co-founder and co-host of the award-winning community radio show ‘Hong Kongology’ at 3CR 855AM. Currently, Katy is working on a project translating Australian First Nations poetry from English to Cantonese and other disappearing languages.
William Huang (he/him) is a writer and musician currently living in Naarm/Melbourne. He has interned for Portside Review, participated in Express Media Toolkits and has participated in the NGA’s Digital Young Writers’ Residency. William is interested in the avant-garde communities of days gone past, as well as critical theories and the emergence of new forms of utopian ideals. He is also interested in minority languages, as well as language learning more broadly.
Four artists from UWRF and EWF appear in this transcontinental literary sound board. Investigating UWRF’s “powers within humans” (live, speak, think), these writers are called upon to artistically represent their connection to such powers.
Enjoy an evening of readings from debut authors and performances that play on the threshold of music and literature.
This digital writing exhibition is an invitation into stillness. Four poets experiment with communicating the wordless, drawing upon language as an imperfect signpost towards the shimmering presence that exists beneath and beyond all things.
From real places to fantasy lands, these writers have mastered the art of immersing their readers in a time and place.
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