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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Writing with Animal Joy

There is an incalculable spirit within poetry that connects us to the world’s aliveness. Join Eartha Davis in a workshop that invites us to honour this spirit by experimenting with the shape, musicality, and essence a poem can possess.

Steered by Nuar Alsadir’s invigorating insights in Animal Joy, we’ll learn to tune our poems to the vast, oceanic wisdom welling just below the skin: our non-rational, embodied knowing.

Tuesday 16 September, 8:30AM-9:30AM

Pay-What-You-Wish


EWF Festival Hub
Workshop Space (Level 1, below ground), The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000

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Eartha Davis

Eartha Davis is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land. She is the winner of the AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and a 2025 Varuna Residency Fellow for her poetry collection màthair beinn. Her work is published in Wildness, the Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite, Rabbit, Awa Wahine, and takahē, among others. […]