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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Preeshita Shah

Preeshita Shah is a journalist and digital producer whose work centres on diaspora communities, migration and community institutions. She is a Cadet Journalist at The Citizen, produced by the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. She is Communications Coordinator for PEN Melbourne and the Asia-Pacific Regional Representative for PEN International’s Young Writers Committee, where she advocates for writers’ rights across the region.

Sunday 13 September, 7.45-8.45pm AEST

What the Machine Won’t Tell You

AI can write a sentence. It can’t tell you why the sentence matters, or what you lost in letting it decide.  Join writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist Jeff Sparrow in conversation with Preeshita Shah, journalist and Asia-Pacific Regional Representative for the PEN International’s Young Writers Committee, for an hour on what AI is changing […]