Sharleigh Crittenden is a Wiradjuri writer, researcher and mother living on Wangal country. Her short fiction has been published online by Going Down Swinging, The West Australian and Aniko Press. Her practices centres around complex psycho-emotional experiences and less conventional, more experimental forms of storytelling, including flash, repeating and fragmentary narration. Her short story ‘River Fish’ won the inaugural First Nations Storytelling Prize in the Best Australian Yarn 2023. She is currently working on her debut novel manuscript, supported by a 2023 Magabala Creative Grant.
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Sharleigh Crittenden
UWRF & EWF: In-Conversation
Join a cross-continental in-conversation reflecting on the evolving role of storytelling in a global context. Witness this exchange of ideas and dreams, as each writer enquires into the other’s diverse creative practice.
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Gather beneath stained glass for the final event of EWF24: an etheral spring banquet.
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Across four sessions, unblock your creative energy, scope out new writerly connections, establish a pleasurable reliable routine, and have the chance to perform new work.
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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.
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