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.

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Writers' Salon & Workshop

Flesh & Form: Writing the Body

An intimate salon examining the relationship between embodiment and writing.

From the physical to the written form, explore how writing might trouble popular conceptions of the body, gesturing towards its dizzying, and perhaps liberatory potentials. Through close reading of philosophy, poetry and fiction, paying particular attention to form and style, discuss writing as something that occurs not only on the page but also in the spaces between (and in) bodies. This session is suitable for all storytellers interested in the body and bodily praxis.

This salon was co-designed by Ellie Fisher and Daniel Ray.


    Presented in Partnership with Festival Friend

Accessibility

Auslan Interpretation may be available on request, Wheelchair Accessible, Accessible Toilet.

Monday 14 September, 6.30-8.30PM

General: $35
Concession: $30
First Nations: $25

Book tickets

Oddany Gallery
491 Sydney Road, Brunswick 3056

Featuring...

Daniel Ray

Daniel lives between Naarm and Queanbeyan. His writing has been published in Meanjin, Griffith Review, Short Fiction, The Big Issue Fiction Edition, Island, Overland, Westerly, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, and elsewhere. He is currently working on his debut novel, Cusp, about adolescent grief and desire, supported by a Create NSW Grant and Roderick Centre Fellowship. A novel excerpt was recently shortlisted for the 2026 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing. Daniel is a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, researching queerness, affect and literary style.