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

Mia-Francesca Jones

Mia is a writer and researcher, and the recipient of the 2025 Mick Dark Flagship Fellowship for Outstanding Environmental Writing by Varuna National Writers’ House. Her writing has been highly commended for the Peter Blazey Fellowship for auto/biographical writing, and listed for the Desperate Literature Prize, the Rachel Funari Prize, the Overland VU Short Story Prize, and the Richell Prize by Hachette Australia.

Thursday 17 September, 6:30-8:30PM

AFTER HOURS at the Convent

Gather for an evening of storytelling, conversation and contemporary voices at Abbotsford Convent.