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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Xiaole Zhan

Xiaole Zhan (詹小乐) is a Chinese-Aotearoa writer and composer based in Naarm. Their work features in Auckland University Press’s New Poets 11. They are the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellow, and the winner of the 2023 Kill Your Darlings Non-Fiction Prize. They are also the recipient of a 2025 Creative New Zealand Fellowship, a 2025 Red Room Poetry Varuna Fellowship and the 2024 Kat Muscat Fellowship. Their name in Chinese means ‘Little Happy’, but can also be read as ‘Little Music’.

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Wednesday 17 September, 7PM

Quaver: Music and Text – Loom Literary Journal Launch

To celebrate the launch of their first issue, Loom Literary Journal presents a night of readings and musical performances.

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