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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Lana Eileen

Lana Eileen is a multidisciplinary visual artist, musician and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, performed around the world, and taken part in artist residencies in both Iceland and Sweden. In 2026, she was a writer-in-residence with Lighthouse Arts for the Hunter Writers’ Centre. Her poetry has been published in Mensicus, The Marrow, Sextet and Lamplit, and she is undertaking a Master of Writing and Publishing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Thursday 17 September, 6:00-7:00PM

Texting Images: Launch

Drawing inspiration from Dadaist philosophies towards visual art alongside Maya Deren’s argument for ‘amateurism’, the 2026 iteration of Texting Images invites participants to write in response to ‘found images’. Across two workshops, participants will develop new writing through discussion, reading, and collaborative feedback, culminating in a celebratory public reading where they will share the work created throughout the program.