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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Jade Reilly

Jade Reilly is a writer and criminologist who lives in Australia with her English husband and two children. Legitimising a fascination with crime from an inappropriately young age, she spent much of her career as a criminologist advocating for social justice reform. For most of the last decade, she undertook specialist reviews of homicides, filicides and suicides to inform coronial inquests and deliberations. Jade is a graduate of the Curtis Brown novel-writing course and is currently working on her debut novel.

Thursday 11 – Thursday 18 September

Edits & Annotations: EWF Edition

In these three special episodes of the Edits & Annotations podcast, hosts Tenille McDermott, Mia-Francesca Jones and Bethany Keats interview emerging writers from regional Queensland.