Jinghua Qian has been a performance poet, a radio broadcaster, a television journalist, and an arts critic. Eir work has appeared in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Morning Herald, and on television in ABC’s China Tonight. Ey lives in Melbourne’s west on the land of the Kulin nations.
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Saturday 18 June
11am -12pm AEST
Jeanine Leane: Poetry of Politics, Power, and Resistance
In her keynote address, celebrated Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic Jeanine Leane will consider the role First Nations poetry plays in engaging with the politics of resistance, and how our poetry can convey and communicate First Nations histories, experiences, and aspirations in a way that national history cannot.

Saturday 18 June
12.30-1.30pm AEST
Jennifer Down: Why Write?
Jennifer Down explores the tension between labor and life, the inherent weirdness of sharing your work, and what it means to keep putting one foot in front of the other as a working writer.

Thursday 23 June
7.30pm & 9pm AEST
Writing the Stars
In partnership with Scienceworks, EWF presents an expansive evening under the stars.

Saturday 18 June
1.45-2.45pm AEST
Jamie Marina Lau: Writing the Hyperreal
Hear from Jamie Marina-Lau as she discusses the hyperreal, accessing it for your writing and how to make the terrifying leap onto the page.
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