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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Performance & Partnered Event

Inner West Wordsmiths

Settle in for an afternoon of immersive readings from these writers living in the inner west. Hear from romance writer Emma Mugglestone, young emerging dystopian fantasy writer Kyle Robinson, poet Miranda Healy, and award-winning writer Maha Sidaoui as they share their latest work. 

This event is in partnership with Hobsons Bay Library Service.

Sunday 14 September, 4:30PM-5:30PM

Pay-What-You-Wish


Williamstown Library, Library Gallery
104 Ferguson St, Williamstown VIC 3016

Featuring...

Emma Mugglestone

Emma Mugglestone lives in Melbourne with her family in a house that never stays clean and is always noisy but she wouldn’t have it any other way. When she’s not writing romances filled with charming settings and swoony characters who will steal your heart, she’s chasing sunrises on early morning runs, reading like it’s an […]

Kyle Robinson

Kyle Robinson is a young, neurodiverse male from Melbourne, Victoria who is currently studying education. In his free time, he writes and writes, going from small stories about the zombie apocalypse to (what he hopes to publish) is a dystopian fantasy novel based around the last remaining city in the world, filled with nightmarish creatures, […]

Miranda Healy

Miranda Healy is a poet and folk songwriter from Naarm, residing in Melbourne’s Inner West. Through observational and deeply introspective voices, she writes to explore thoughts on family, nature, humanity and internal conflicts. Miranda loves archaic language and playing with her rescue cat Hector. Her work can be found in the recently published ‘Spirals’ edition […]

Maha Sidaoui

Maha Sidaoui is a Lebanese-Australian writer who mines her cultural confusion, sexuality and poor life choices for stories, because why waste a good identity crisis? Her screenplay One Arabian Girl picked up a few awards before she decided to turn it into a manuscript, which now haunts her like an unused twelve month gym membership. […]