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

Katerina Gibson

Katerina Gibson is a writer and bookseller living in Naarm. Her debut collection Women I Know won the 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Steele Rudd Award, and was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing. Her stories have appeared in HEAT, Granta, Overland, The Griffith Review, the Lifted Brow, Meanjin, and New Australian Fiction, among other places. Katerina was named SMH 2023 Best Young Australian Novelist. Her debut novel The Temperature was published with Scribner in 2024.

Wednesday 17 September, 10AM-11AM

Long Story Short

Ideas that could be great starting points for a short story so often remain in the first drafts folder.

In this workshop, author Katerina Gibson will help take your first draft from rough to polished.