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

Michael Farrell

Michael Farrell is a poet from Bombala, NSW, now living in Melbourne. Previous book publications include: The Victoria Principle (stories), Googlecholia (poems), A Lyrebird (U.S. selected poems), Writing Australian Unsettlement (literary history), and Ashbery Mode (as editor). Michael edits The Chalamet Review, and is also poetry editor of Westerly. Artwork can viewed @limechax on instagram. Videos @flashcove1695 on youtube.

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.