Phillip Herrold

Celebrate the launch of the 2024 Emerging Writers’ Festival, as well as our debut as a springtime affair.

Join poet, artist and somatic facilitator Shannon May Powell in exploring how pleasure and desire can unfurl on the page to enhance your storytelling.

Indulge in one hour of shared sustained silence, in a simple ritual to concentrate on the thing we want to do — but so often find many reasons not to — write.

What does it mean to write in honour of the dead? Who is elegy for, and what are the ethical considerations and implications of such writing?