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

Anne M Carson

Anne M Carson is an Australian independent researcher, creative writing teacher, poet, and essayist living by the bay on unceded Bunurong Country. Her poetry has been published internationally, and widely in Australia over many years, receiving numerous awards including being shortlisted in the Women Authors New South Wales Poetry Prize (2024) and commended in the Ada Cambridge Poetry award (2024). Her latest book is The Detective’s Chair: prose poems about fictional detectives (Liquid Amber Press 2023). Her PhD (2023, RMIT) received an Outstanding Dissertation Prize (American Educational Research Association, Visual and Performing Arts SIG, 2024).

Friday 12 September, 6:00PM-8:00PM

EWF X Textile Message: An Exhibition

Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion.