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

Bayley Turner

Bayley Turner is a Melbourne-based writer and performer. She has been praised for her as a playwright for ‘Thirty-Six’ co-written with Jo Clifford, and ‘Burlesque by Force’. She recently self-published a collection of poetry, ‘Ulysses’ and is due to self-publish her second collection ‘16,000km or so’ in mid 2025. Bayley has had her writing featured in Archer Magazine, drip(feed) and MamaMia, and was published in the edited book ‘Heaven Bent: Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex experiences of faith, religion and spirituality’. Bayley was one of the winners of the Empower Her Voice 2021 Creative Writing Contest.