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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Artist

AJ Lee

AJ Lee writes to untangle the knots between memory, feeling, and the present moment. His work often circles around themes of resilience, displacement, and the quiet weight of experience, sometimes raw, sometimes layered in metaphor. Writing, for AJ, is both excavation and construction: a way of honouring what came before while imagining what could be. Drawing on personal memory and collective narrative, his writing seeks to give voice to the unseen and the silenced. He approachs poetry as both an act of witnessing and of transformation, weaving language into spaces where healing and meaning can emerge.

Thursday 11th September, 6PM – 7PM

Opening Night: Finding Your Way

To mark the opening of EWF25, Guest Curator Coral Reeve will guide you along a contemporary Songline. Come witness an array of First Nations oral storytellers as they explore historical paths, right up into the present day.