Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian essayist whose writing explores class, race, diaspora and Western Sydney. Her essays have appeared in The Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, The Age, and elsewhere. Her debut essay collection Root & Branch (NewSouth Publishing) was published in 2022, and won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.
Appearing In
![](https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/jenny_valentish-720x720.png)
Friday 16 June, 10am
Masterclass: Memoir
A masterclass all about memoir. From reading it to writing it!
You might also like...
![](https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Mohamed_Chamas.png)
Monday 19 June, 8pm
Scream Scenes
It’s fright night, so prepare for an evening of spooky and silly stories backdropped by matching cinema projections
Learn More
![](https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/aprofilepic-scaled.jpg)
Monday 19 June, 2pm
EWF X Dinner Party Press: From Page to Stage
Transform your intimate erotic prose into a spoken declaration of desire with Dinner Party Press and Emerging Writers’ Festival.
![](https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/diego_ramirez.png)
Tuesday 20 June, 7:45pm
Littlefoot & Co’s Spoken Word Night
Spoken word artists, storytellers, musicians, comedians and first-time performers gather at Bunjil Place every month to perform new work in a relaxed, welcoming performance space.
![](https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ella_skilbeck-porter.png)
Saturday 24 June, 11AM
CTRL+F: Assembling and Resembling the Poem
Dive into experimentation with procedure, constraint, chance and technology to generate poems.
Subscribe to our email newsletter: