Victoria Manifold is a writer and trade union worker from County Durham, now living on Gadigal land. She has been shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize twice, was a runner up in the 2019 Berlin Writing Prize, shortlisted for the 2021 Desperate Literature Prize and a runner-up in the 2022 Mslexia Short Story Prize. Her novel-in-progress, The Election of the Mayor, was shortlisted for the 2023 Richell Prize and longlisted for the 2023 Mslexia Novel Prize. In 2024 Wendy Erskine and Yan Ge selected her as the winner of the Short Fiction International Short Story Prize.
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Journal Crawl
You’ve heard of, and likely have ventured on a pub crawl, but how about a lit mag crawl? EWF presents our first ever journal crawl.
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Celebrate the work written during the Chapters program. Sit back and enjoy listening to your fellow Chapters participants’ exciting new work.
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The Burning Haibun is a poetic form that burns away at the landscape of memory to find a distilled truth within. By considering erasure in its political context, this workshop will explore the power of the Burning Haibun and what it can reveal.
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