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

Paula Campos

Paula Campos is a writer, bookseller and student, in her last year studying English and Creative Writing at UNSW. She loves to read and write experimental stories with unlikable female narrator/s, Western Sydney settings and language that disrupt the English canon. Her first short story, “Palm trees, piercings, and a more lowkey, chill place to live,” was published in Voiceworks and won the inaugural Kat Muscat award. She is currently undertaking the Open Book internship with Giramondo Publishing and Hardie Grant (Ultimo Press and Pantera Press).

Thursday 10 September – Friday 18 September

EWF X Hate Mail

Hate Mail is essentially the act of acting on your feelings. A hobby that is frowned upon and vocabulary that isn’t very ‘ladylike’. The zine, Hate Mail is dedicated to that burning feeling we often let linger, harnessing it and turning it into art.