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

Megan Payne

Megan is a writer, dancer and arts worker living on Wurundjeri land. They studied Dance at the VCA and Writing and Editing at RMIT, and previously worked as operations manager at the Emerging Writers’ Festival. Their choreographic practice includes the ongoing collaborative radio project Land Swimming with Oonagh Slater, exploring how writing, fiction and voice are felt in the body. Megan writes fiction exploring how characters come to understand and embody supernatural, shapeshifting, queer and trans identities.

Friday 11 September, 5.30-6.30PM

The Writer Aquatic

Soak in an evening of poetic musings related to the ritual of lap-swimming, and the vital role that public pools play in the writer’s imagination, and to their wellbeing. Go ahead and take a dusk dip before or after the reading, at a discounted price.