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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Brendon McLeod

Brendon McLeod is an award-winning emerging writer of fiction, poetry, and drama. He is a PhD candidate in creative writing at The University of Sydney, and was awarded the Arthur Macquarie Travelling Scholarship. He won Indiana Review’s 2025 Fiction Award. In 2023 he was awarded a fellowship to Varuna The National Writers’ House. He was shortlisted for the 2023 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. His poems and short stories have been published or are forthcoming in Rabbit Poetry, Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, and Indiana Review, among others. He lives and works on Wiradyuri/Wiradjuri country in regional New South Wales.

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