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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Carl Walsh

Carl Walsh is a poet with ADHD who lives and writes on Wurundjeri Country. Carl’s poetry has appeared in journals such as StylusLit, Westerly, Rabbit, Tokyo Poetry Journal, The Madrigal and Meanjin (amongst others). His work has also been published in anthologies including 100 Poets (Flying Islands); Oystercatcher One (Five Islands Press); Poetry for the Planet (Litoria Press) and Under the Same Moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology (FortySouth Publishing). His first book of poetry, Tarp Green Light, was published in Flying Islands’ 2024 Pocket Poets series.

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Saturday 13 September, 2PM-3PM

From the Chrysalis

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