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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Henry Silvey

Henry is a writer raised in Meanjin/Brisbane and currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. Graduating from the Victorian College of Arts with a Master’s of Screenwriting in 2026, he loves to write stories that are as funny as they are surreal, and has dreams of writing the next generation’s Napoleon Dynamite. Not really, but that would be awesome. Someone else should do that.

Thursday 10 September – Friday 18 September

EWF X Hate Mail

Hate Mail is essentially the act of acting on your feelings. A hobby that is frowned upon and vocabulary that isn’t very ‘ladylike’. The zine, Hate Mail is dedicated to that burning feeling we often let linger, harnessing it and turning it into art.