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

Tess Ritchie

Tess Ritchie is a poet from Aotearoa New Zealand living in Naarm/Melbourne. She has work in Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit Poetry, Landfall, Turbine | Kapohau and Sweet Mammalian. In 2024 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) and was awarded the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry.

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Saturday 13 September, 2PM-3PM

From the Chrysalis

Surrounded by living symbols of metamorphosis, writers share from their own cocoons — tender, raw, and reverent.

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