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

Danii Jasmine

Danii Jasmine is a poet and writer who explores the depths of the human condition through the lens of surreal nostalgia, dark humour, and confessional fragments that make the familiar feel alien.

She had her poem “Brandy Melville” featured in ACE III: Arresting Contemporary Stories By Emerging Writers published by Recent Work Press in 2022. In 2024, she independently published her debut poetry collection HOMEMADE SHRINE, a mix between a collection and an interactive reader experience.

In 2025 she was selected as a member of the WestWords Academy Cohort. She has a B.A. in Creative Writing from Macquarie University.

Throughout September

Nostalgic Debris

Read these four writers’ love letters to their formative passions, whims and obsessions from their youth, spanning the digital and real-world.