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

Jazz Money

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Jazz’s debut poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) won the 2020 David Unaipon Award, and their second collection mark the dawn (UQP, 2024) was awarded the 2024 UQP Quentin Bryce Award. Trained as a filmmaker, Jazz’s first feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) interrogates legacies of archives on First Nations people and was commissioned by the Australian National Film and Sound Archive.

Wednesday 17 September, 6PM-7PM (AEST)

Youth Workshop: Poetic Obsessions

As part of Red Room Poetry’s Youth Ambassadors program, this workshop is designed especially for poets under 25 who are looking to ground their creative practice in the stories and landscapes that surround them.