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

Jarni Blakkarly

Jarni Blakkarly is an award-winning investigative journalist and writer. His journalism work has appeared in outlets such as Al Jazeera English, BBC, ABC, SBS News and CHOICE, where he now works. His creative writing explores issues and complexities of race, identity and living with bipolar disorder and has been published in the Griffith Review, Kill Your Darlings and Overland.

Wednesday 16 September, 7.30pm-8.30pm AEST

Written Out: How Australian Media Is Failing Disability Representation

This panel brings together artists working in various pockets of the creative industries to share their stories, perspectives and lived experience. Together they’ll celebrate how far we’ve come, reckon with how far we haven’t, and dream up the future that disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent people deserve.