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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Speculate

How does fiction reflect and predict on the page, and what does it mean to speculate through literature? This discussion will dive deep into the world/s of speculative fiction, before making a very exciting announcement sure to delight emerging short fiction writers Australia wide.

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Tuesday 10 September, 6.30PM

The Wheeler Centre
Performance Space Level 2, 176 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, VIC

Featuring...

Else Fitzgerald

Else Fitzgerald’s collection of short speculative fiction, Everything Feels Like the End of the World, was published by Allen & Unwin in August 2022.

Emilie Collyer

Emilie Collyer lives on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her writing is widely published in Australia and internationally.

Benjamin Laird

Benjamin Laird is a software engineer and poet. His print and electronic poetry have been published in various journals.

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