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

Oonagh Slater

Oonagh is an artist living and working on Gadigal land. Her practice marries the poetics of the mundane with the expansive imagery of fiction. Rooted in the body, her work explores memory, lineage, landscape, and intimacy. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) from the Victorian College of the Arts and has worked with choreographers including Phoebe Robinson, Sandra Parker, Judith Walton, Alice Heyward, and Oisín Ó Manacháin. Most recently, she was a contributing artist for Temporary Position’s Streaming Surrounds at Cement Fondu (2023). Her choreographic writing practice includes the ongoing collaborative project Land Swimming with Megan Payne.

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.