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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Writers' Salon & Workshop

Unfinished Business: Writing Memory, Place and Uncertainty

Within so many searing works of fiction, lies a sense of unfinished business. The stories, silences, and emotional residues that linger across generations, relationships, and landscapes. Drawing on Australian Gothic traditions, join prize-nominated writer Shannon Benton to explore memory as something unstable and shape-shifting, where ambiguity and atmosphere become powerful, creative tools. Experiment with fragments, uncertainty, and emotional truth, while considering how place, longing, and inherited narratives shape the stories we tell.  


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

Tuesday 15 September, 6.30pm-8.30pm

$35 General
$30 Concession
$25 First Nations Tickets
 
 

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Abbotsford Convent: Bishop’s Parlour
1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford VIC 3067

Featuring...

Shannon Benton

Shannon Benton is a regional NSW writer whose work explores memory, landscape and the interior lives of women. She was one of five shortlisted for the Newcastle Writers Festival Fresh Ink Prize and named in The Best Australian Yarn (Top 50). Her work has appeared in Mona Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2026 ASAL Creative Writing Fellowship and is currently developing her debut novel, Fragmented.