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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Open Air, Partner & Social Session

Map of Lost Places

Wander-y presents a storytelling walk and mapped tour: an assemblage of women’s experiences of leisure in the city. 

We invite you to walk with us and share in these lost places of Melbourne, where shops, cafes, social worlds and zones of becoming are reignited and reclaimed by collective memory. 

Start point – Queen Victoria Women’s Centre (Lonsdale St) 

End point – Princes Bridge 

Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grant.

Accessibility

Auslan Interpretation may be available on request, Wheelchair Accessible.

Sunday 13 September, 1-3PM

Pay-What-You-Wish/Free

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Featuring...

Simmone Howell

Simmone Howell is a Naarm Melbourne-based award-winning author of books for young adults. She teaches creative writing at RMIT. Her non-fiction on memory, cultural objects, houses & haunts is regularly published in the Age/SMH.

Lisa D’Onofrio

Lisa D’Onofrio is a creative projects facilitator, occasional poet, filmmaker, podcast creator, creative producer and festival director. She is constantly curious and this drives her eclectic practice. She embraces the domestic, “ordinary”, lost and recovered, through the spoken and written word.
Lisa has decades of experience in community and literature development and facilitation, as well as festival programming and curating. Long term passions include women’s social history, mapping and walking, and the connections between creativity and well-being.

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