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

Andrea Thompson

Andrea Thompson is a writer, music journalist, artist manager and promoter. Born in the north of England in the Swinging Sixties, Andrea has worked through a range of jobs including trades assistant in the north-west of Western Australia, factory worker, teacher and public servant, but her one constant is writing. Geraldine began as a memoir, but when Andrea discovered that every other gender-diverse person in the world was also writing a memoir, she switched her focus and wrote for a central character who taught her the value the ordinary, and to never give up the fight.