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

Alina Ivanova

Often found sipping french earl grey tea, Alina Ivanova is a freelance journalist, fiction writer, and critic. She is living in Naarm (Melbourne) and has written for the independent journals and news outlets Loiter Magazine, Monash’s Mojo news, Esperanto and Lot’s Wife. She is currently writing a new weird short story anthology about existential crises and the natural world.

Monday 14 September, 10AM-1PM

Speculate: Workshop, Lunch and Launch

Come for an afternoon of speculation in this three-part special series of events (panel, workshop, lunchtime launch) where we ask what is the role of fiction in regenerative futures? How can writing speculatively help us imagine and inhabit the future?