Presented in partnership with Williamstown Literary Festival.
Free registration for this event is available here.
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.
In partnership with Williamstown Literary Festival, four exceptional writers from the West will share selections from their most recent work, live at Williamstown’s beautiful Town Hall.
Presented in partnership with Williamstown Literary Festival.
Free registration for this event is available here.
Wheelchair, service animal, hearing loop, onsite parking bay
Sunday 18 June, 4:30pm
Williamstown Town Hall
104 Ferguson St, Williamstown VIC 3016
Kgshak Akec is a South-Sudanese writer, performing artist, and a lover of words.
Elise is the Executive Officer of the Williamstown Literary Festival.
Sam Elkin is a writer, arts producer and radio maker living in Naarm.
Gareth Morgan is the author of Dear Eileen, and When A Punk Becomes A Spunk, and co-director of Sick Leave.
Lia Dewey Morgan is a poet and writer living on stolen land in Narrm. She grapples with the continuity and chaos present in contemporary living, using poetry as a toolkit to pry open our muddled moment. Her first book, ‘Bath Songs’, was published with local press nomorepoetry.
Thursday 15 June, 7pm
This group of emerging and established First Nations writers have summoned up their writing magic to share stories of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars
Wednesday 21 June, 7pm
In this fluid display of literature, writers will perform in Urdu, Hindi, French, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, English and Spanish to promise an evening of waterworks.
Thursday 22 June, 6pm
In this conversation between father and daughter, the two writers discuss the intergenerational approach to their co-written book, The Shape of Dust.
Saturday 24 June, 11AM
Dive into experimentation with procedure, constraint, chance and technology to generate poems.
Australia’s premier festival for new
and emerging writers.
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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