Maria Birch-Morunga is a Maori/Pakeha podcast host, facilitator and visual artist. Based in Melbourne, Maria’s practice includes fabric art, collage and co-creating Being Biracial podcast. Alongside Kate Robinson, Maria is part of the current cohort of Museums Victoria’s Culturemakers. The pair created Threads, an immersive digital film that is currently exhibited at Melbourne Museum. Maria has previously curated and hosted events at Footscray Community Arts, MPavillion, The Channel at the Arts Centre Melbourne and The Round.
Appearing In

Saturday 14 September, 10AM
EWF X A Plus Market
Melbourne’s A Plus has gathered a posse of brilliant writers to reflect on their favourite writing about plus size bodies, and shine a light on the power – and sometimes, difficulty – in being visible, taking up space, and writing against shame.
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Thursday 5 September, 6:30PM AWST
Centre for Stories: Dreams / Reality
Speculative fiction meets creative non-fiction in this night of readings at Centre for Stories. Witness writers as they trace the threshold between dreams and reality.

Thursday 8 August, 6PM
Texting Images: BLINDSIDE & EWF Ekphrastic Workshop
As part of Blindside and the Emerging Writers Festival’s 2024 Ekphrastic Writing Program, Naarm-based poet and critic Dr Autumn Royal will reveal the history of ekphrasis to illuminate the relationship between literary and visual realms.

Thursday 5 September, 7PM
Opening Night: LIB[ERA]TION
To mark the opening EWF24, Guest Curator Mackenzie Lee asks: What does an Era of Liberation look like, and how is writing both a tool and an act of liberation, for the self and the collective?

Thursday 1 August, 6:30PM
Program Launch: Divinations
Celebrate the launch of the 2024 Emerging Writers’ Festival, as well as our debut as a springtime affair.
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