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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The Grant Scheme of Things

A session all about grants and funding for writers – do they exist, how do you get one, and what do you do once you do have one? Find all this out and more!

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Saturday 17 June, 3pm

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Kanika Chopra

Kanika is an avid reader, occasional writer, and all around curious person.

Mia-Francesca Jones

Mia-Francesca Jones is a writer and researcher living on Dja Dja Wurrung Country.

Dženana Vucic

Dženana Vucic is a Bosnian-Australian writer, poet and critic

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Kick off the National Writers’ Conference with a panel featuring this year’s incredible Ambassadors.

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How does a good story become a great novel? Victoria Hannan, author of Kokomo and Marshmallow, will explore the role of structure in bringing stories to life.

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Wednesday 14 June – Saturday 24 June

Frayed at the ends

Weaving language, labour and spirit, two poets expose the intersections and splinters that arise when two perspectives are made to share the same space.

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Tuesday 20 June, 6pm AEST

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Leah Jing McIntosh and Hannah Wu will discuss the process of developing work for publication in LIMINAL’s two anthologies, Collisions and Against Disappearance.

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