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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Alcoves & Workshop

Poetry’s Negative Space

Navigate how shape and form play into questions of presence and absence, knowing and unknowing — a consideration of negative space as a multipotent site of ambiguity, rhythm, meaning-making, and bewilderment.

Led by Sydney-based award-winning poet and debut author Munira Tabassum Ahmed, experiment with erasure and white space on the page; a silence symmetrical to voice. 


Accessibility

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

Monday 14 September, 6.30-7.30PM

$25 General Tickets
$21 Concession Tickets
$15 First Nations Tickets

Book tickets

Balam Balam Place: 402. Creative Development Space
15 Phoenix Street Brunswick 3056

Featuring...

Munira Tabassum Ahmed

Munira Tabassum Ahmed’s work has been published in Pleiades, The Adroit Journal, Meanjin, Best of Australian Poems, Liminal, Cordite, and elsewhere. She was the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellow. ‘The Clinging Thing’ (Penguin, 2026) is her first novel.