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 Myth of “Wellness”

Wellness culture positions itself as a refuge, while perpetuating much of the harm it claims to remedy – and we’ve fallen for it. Why are we so willing to buy into the stories wellness tells and sells? What if what is presented as the ‘cure’ is in fact the source of our disease?

A curious conversation that will surface the stories our culture has internalised about “wellness”, alongside a call to radically rewrite what it means to be well.

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Miriam Latif

Miriam Latif is a herbalist and mentor who is less concerned with plants and the body, and more curious about the personal and cultural stories that define our understanding and experience of health in the first place. She holds conflicting truths – wellness is broken, and it has much to offer us, if we can […]

Lori Curran

Lori Curran is a bodyworker specialising in massage therapy, yoga, movement and mindfulness. She is also a student of counselling and psychotherapy. Her work is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach, she facilitates body awareness, tension release, and nervous system regulation, fostering resilience and emotional balance. Lori’s practice is centred on the interconnectedness of mind and […]

Taj Scicluna

Taj Scicluna is an artist, botanical educator, bioregional Herbalist, and Awe Seeker. Her business is a platform for creativity, a place to weave the romantic wonder of the botanical into something tangible to share with the world. She aims to co-collaborate in repairing the rupture created in our experience of nature as separate, believing that healing is done in this process of being in relationship with the botanical rather than treating it as a resource. Healing is within the process, not the product.