Ethers, EWF X & Digital Exhibition

EWF X Hate Mail

There’s a lot to be angry about, big or small. To hell with the tall poppies. Let’s get back to basics and tear down things that just outright suck.

Hate Mail is essentially the act of acting on your feelings. A hobby that is frowned upon and vocabulary that isn’t very ‘ladylike’. The zine, Hate Mail is dedicated to that burning feeling we often let linger, harnessing it and turning it into art. It’s hard to get by in these “unprecedented times” and spreading hate isn’t cool, but creating acceptance within its acknowledgment is.

In this special edition of Hate Mail for EWF, our writers’ introspection carries them through the painful nostalgia that comes with growing up. 21st century dating, personal metamorphosis, a volatile menstruation, people watching on a train from Sydney to Lismore and the cyclical experience of an abusive home.

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Featuring...

Jasmyn Ameti

Jasmyn Ameti is a writer and editor based in Naarm. She is the co-editor of Hate Mail zine. She is a VCA drop-out who works in a glorified chicken shop. Her work is interested in performance, delusion and the mutable self.

Paula Campos

Paula Campos is a writer, bookseller and student, in her last year studying English and Creative Writing at UNSW. She loves to read and write experimental stories with unlikable female narrator/s, Western Sydney settings and language that disrupt the English canon. Her first short story, “Palm trees, piercings, and a more lowkey, chill place to live,” was published in Voiceworks and won the inaugural Kat Muscat award. She is currently undertaking the Open Book internship with Giramondo Publishing and Hardie Grant (Ultimo Press and Pantera Press).

Jaala Hallett

Jaala Hallett is a Dunghutti and Gumbaynggirr poet and arts producer. Every now and then, she manages to form stanzas to relay her observations of the intimacies of life, and considers relationships with people, place, body and communities, as well as her Aboriginal identity and culture.

Laura Mullan

Laura lives and works on Wurundjeri land and is co-founder of the zine, Hate Mail. She writes like she has an itch she can’t scratch – a wonderment to her curiosity. Her words are like a stream of consciousness – much the same as getting a peak into her diary entries. She’s interested in the grandiose spectacle of modern life, relationships and how the internet always has an opinion on everything…and well, she does too.

Henry Silvey

Henry is a writer raised in Meanjin/Brisbane and currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. Graduating from the Victorian College of Arts with a Master’s of Screenwriting in 2026, he loves to write stories that are as funny as they are surreal, and has dreams of writing the next generation’s Napoleon Dynamite. Not really, but that would be awesome. Someone else should do that.

Lilly Sokolowski

Lilly is an emerging writer from Naarm. She likes to write short stories about female friendships and mundane happenings and other things that make her feel alive.

Emerging Writers Festival