Emilie Collyer lives on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her writing is widely published in Australia and internationally. Her poetry collection Do you have anything less domestic? (Vagabond Press 2022) won the inaugural Five Islands Poetry Prize and she came runner-up in the 2024 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. Emilie is currently under commission with Red Stitch Actors Theatre (Melbourne) and The Street Theatre (Canberra) and her play Once Were Pirates is playing Melbourne and Prague in 2024. She has just completed a PhD at RMIT researching feminist creative practice and is now an RMIT Adjunct Industry Fellow.
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Emilie Collyer
Speculate
How does fiction reflect and predict on the page, and what does it mean to speculate through literature? This discussion will dive deep into the world/s of speculative fiction, before making a very exciting announcement sure to delight emerging short fiction writers Australia wide.
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