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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Festival Hub & Workshop

Long Story Short

Ideas that could be great starting points for a short story so often remain in the first drafts folder.

In this workshop, author Katerina Gibson will help take your first draft from rough to polished. Learn to think your way out of tight corners and expect to apply some of your favourite writers’ techniques to your own work. Participants are encouraged to bring an early draft of a story to develop.

Wednesday 17 September, 10AM-11AM

Pay-What-You-Wish


EWF Festival Hub
Workshop Space (Level 1, below ground), The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Featuring...

Katerina Gibson

Katerina Gibson is a writer and bookseller living in Naarm. Her debut collection Women I Know won the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award, and was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Her stories have appeared in HEAT, Granta, Overland, The Griffith Review, the Lifted Brow, Meanjin, and […]