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

Anita Solak

Anita Solak is a poet, editor and electronic literature artist living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her writing can be found in Cordite, Going Down Swinging, and The Suburban Review, among others. She was a 2023 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellow, shortlisted for the 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and studied at the School for Poetic Computation in 2024. She is the Richell Prize Project Coordinator. Her practice is informed by her love of details, collective memory, and the failures of language.

Weekly, from end of August – end of September

Nostalgic Debris

Read these four writers’ love letters to their formative passions, whims and obsessions from their youth, spanning the digital and real-world.