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

Cass Li

Cass Li is an emerging writer with a creative documentary practice from Western Sydney. Her essayistic work, often drawing on her Chinese Timorese-Indonesian heritage, explores the moving boundaries of insider/outsider across time, place, and memory.

In 2024, she initiated research for a personal documentary project in an Accessible Arts and CreateNSW funded artist residency in Portugal. She has developed work as a CuriousWorks’ Future Culture artist in residence, WritingNSW Cultivate mentee and was part of National Young Writer’s Festival in 2025. This year, she looks forward to exhibiting at photoaccess and Pari.

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Thursday 17 September, 10.00-11.00AM AEST

So be it! See to it!: Manifesto Writing Workshop

This workshop is inspired by the personal manifestos of Octavia Butler and the laws of manifestation. Through individual and collective reflections, explore your core values, needs and barriers to inspire a guiding vision that can be returned to, again and again.

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