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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Tahlia Bowen

Tahlia Bowen-Guise (she/her) is a writer of Papua New Guinean and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. She is a Faber Writing Academy alum and winning recipient of Sweatshop Literacy Movement’s Fresh Off The Books: The Pasifika Australian Literary Initiative. She has written for several independent media outlets including Cheek Media. Her work engages with themes of culture, belonging, politics and social justice.

Wednesday 16 September, 8pm-9pm

Stori: Storytelling in Melanesia

Join storytellers Ella Rowe, Tahlia Bowen, Koteka Wenda and Mereani Qalovakawasa for Stori: Storytelling in Melanesia. Through words, art, music and Tok Stori, hear spellbinding tales of their homelands.