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

Eartha Davis

Eartha Davis is a woman of Ngāpuhi and Celtic heritage living on Wurundjeri land. She is the winner of the AAWP/Express Media Sudden Writing Prize and a 2025 Varuna Residency Fellow for her poetry collection màthair beinn. Her work is published in Wildness, the Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite, Rabbit, Awa Wahine, and takahē, among others. She writes about hope, ancestors, returning to the rivers of our hearts to dream.

Tuesday 16 September, 8:30AM-9:30AM

Writing with Animal Joy

There is an incalculable spirit within poetry that connects us to the world’s aliveness. Experiment with the shape, musicality, and essence a poem can possess.