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

Rose Michael

Rose Michael’s first novel, The Asking Game, was a runner-up for the Vogel and received an Aurealis honourable mention. An early extract from her second, The Art of Navigation, was shortlisted for a Conjure award and published in Review of Aus Fiction. She has published spec fic in Island, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Best Australian Stories and spec crit in The Conversation, Sydney Review of Books, Reading Like an Australian Writer. Experiments towards her new novel, Else, have been published in international journals Antipodes and Speculative Nonfiction.

Monday 14 September, 10AM-1PM

Speculate: Workshop, Lunch and Launch

Come for an afternoon of speculation in this three-part special series of events (panel, workshop, lunchtime launch) where we ask what is the role of fiction in regenerative futures? How can writing speculatively help us imagine and inhabit the future?