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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Texting Images: BLINDSIDE & EWF Ekphrastic Workshop

Ekphrasis is the practice of rendering an artwork as text. As part of Blindside and the Emerging Writers Festival’s 2024 Ekphrastic Writing Program, Naarm-based poet and critic Dr Autumn Royal will reveal the history of ekphrasis to illuminate the relationship between literary and visual realms. Participants are invited to expand on this form by writing their own ekphrastic text in response to original artworks.

This workshop, coinciding with Blindside’s 20th anniversary celebration, reflects on how text can evoke an afterlife of ephemeral exhibitions. Writers will consider how new textual responses may expand, reactivate, and revise artworks in Blindside’s archive.

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BLINDSIDE Gallery
Nicholas Building, Level 7, Room 14, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia

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Autumn Royal

Autumn Royal creates drama, poetry and criticism on unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land. Autumn is an arts worker, sessional academic and the interviews editor at Cordite Poetry Review. Her poetry collection The Drama Student was shortlisted for the 2023 Queensland Premier’s Judith Wright Calanthe Award.

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