Sharlene Allsopp was born and raised on unceded Bundjalung Country into the Olive mob. She has been published in the Growing Up Indigenous in Australia anthology on BlackWords, Griffith Review – Acts of Reckoning, Portside Review, Aniko press, and was the University of QLD’s Ford Memorial Poet of 2021. Her novel The Great Undoing is due for release in 2023 with Ultimo Press.
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Thursday 15 June, 11am
Digital Ecologies
Join these writers for an invigorating discussion about their visions for a world where the technological and the natural are simultaneously embraced.
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Wednesday 21 June, 9pm
Distraction & it’s (Dis)contents
In an attention economy where textual engagement is constantly subject to the news cycle, the fragment, virality and the scroll, what is it to be distracted, and what makes it compelling?
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Thursday 22 June, 6:30PM
Writers Night School: Short Stories
Join Paige Clark, author of the acclaimed short story collection She Is Haunted, to learn about the tenants of satisfying, memorable short story writing, from scope, pace, imagery and character.
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Monday 19 June, 2pm
EWF X Dinner Party Press: From Page to Stage
Transform your intimate erotic prose into a spoken declaration of desire with Dinner Party Press and Emerging Writers’ Festival.
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