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

Harrison Abbott

Harrison Abbott is a Gamilaroi writer and poet working from the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people in Naarm. Harrison studies a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne. You can read his work in Voiceworks and Cordite. He writes and edits the student paper of the University of Melbourne, Farrago.

Sunday 13 September, 8.30-10PM

Modern Mehfil

Part of the syncretic heritage of South Asia, a mehfil is an intimate, often formal gathering for the performing arts. Bring your yearning words, poetry and feelings or simply swing by to hear our featured performers take you through a queer reimagination of this affair.