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

Irma Gold

Irma Gold is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, THE BREAKING and SHIFT, a short fiction collection, TWO STEPS FORWARD, and five children’s books, with another two forthcoming. Good Reading magazine has described her as ‘an immense literary talent’. Irma works full-time as a freelance book editor for both publishers and individuals, and for a decade was Convener of Editing at the University of Canberra. She is the founder and co-host of the writing podcast Secrets from the Green Room.