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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Munira Tabassum Ahmed

Munira Tabassum Ahmed’s work has been published in Pleiades, The Adroit Journal, Meanjin, Best of Australian Poems, Liminal, Cordite, and elsewhere. She was the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellow. ‘The Clinging Thing’ (Penguin, 2026) is her first novel.