Sam Elkin is a writer, community lawyer and author of Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga. He co-hosts the Triple R radio show Queer View Mirror and is the 2024 City of Melbourne Boyd Garret writer in residence.
Photo credit: Marlo W
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.
Sam Elkin is a writer, community lawyer and author of Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga. He co-hosts the Triple R radio show Queer View Mirror and is the 2024 City of Melbourne Boyd Garret writer in residence.
Photo credit: Marlo W
Saturday 14 September, 11AM
Come along to this literary speed-friending session for an opportunity to meet other emerging writers who identify as queer or gender diverse.
Saturday 7 September, 4:15PM
Launch into travel and experiential-based storytelling with three of EWF’s favourite emerging, regional-based writers. Discover what life beyond the city brings to their practices, and how attending writers’ festivals is shaping their careers.
Friday 6 September, 7:30PM
Enjoy an evening of readings from debut authors and performances that play on the threshold of music and literature.
Monday 9 September, 6:30PM
Join poet, writer, and educator Hasib Hourani for an evening of poetry, and its power to preserve culture, provoke change, and speak truth to power.
Friday 13 September, 8PM
Dress up in your phantasmic finest for an evening of spine-tingling tales, from writers and ghouls alike.
Australia’s premier festival for new
and emerging writers.
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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