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

Mira Robertson

Mira Robertson is a novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. She is the author of two novels: Grace & Marigold (Spinifex Press, 2024) and The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean (Black Inc, 2018). Her short stories have won prizes and been shortlisted for awards. She is published in various literary magazines including Meanjin, The Furphy Anthology 2020 and Griffith Review. She has won prizes for her film scripts, receiving a Best Original Screenplay Australian Film Institute award for ONLY THE BRAVE (1994), and an Australian Writers Guild Best Adapted Screenplay award for HEAD ON (1998).

Friday 12 September, 6:00PM-8:00PM

EWF X Textile Message: An Exhibition

Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion.