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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Nadia Mahjouri

NADIA MAHJOURI is the author of Half Truth – her debut novel published by Penguin Random House in Feb 2025, which was inspired by her own experience travelling to Morocco to find her father. She is a counsellor, and group facilitator specialising in maternal mental health. Her professional background is in health policy, governance and academia, focused on ethics and feminist philosophy. She is the host of The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life. In this podcast, Nadia interviews authors about how they manage to keep writing while living in the messy middle of family life, work and creativity.

Wednesday 17 September, 5:30PM-6:30PM

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