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

Trish Bolton

Trish Bolton’s debut novel, Whenever You’re Ready, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2024. Her writing has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Age, Sunday Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canberra Times, Overland, New Matilda, The Big Issue and Visible Ink. Trish has been the recipient of an Australian Society of Authors mentorship, a Varuna Publishing Introduction Pathway Fellowship, a Varuna Residential Writer’s Fellowship, joint-winner of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Jim Hamilton Award, runner-up in the FAW Whitelight Drama Script Award, and longlisted for the Virginia Prize for Fiction (UK) and Mslexia Women’s Novel Competition (UK).

Friday 12 September, 6:00PM-8:00PM

EWF X Textile Message: An Exhibition

Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion.