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

Mek Yimam

Mek Yimam is a writer, editor and artist. She has developed and facilitated comic workshops for diverse audiences of established and emerging writers, artists, library patrons, and people seeking shared creative experiences. Mek is one half of the artivist collaboration Me, with Meg Sattler.

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Friday 12 September, 12:00PM-2:00PM

Our Words Have Power

Explore how literary subcultures have countered political and capitalist narratives for years, and learn to flip those narratives through the East-Asian four-act narrative framework known as kishōtenketsu.

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