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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Zali Morgan

Zali Morgan is a Noongar woman with ancestral connections to Whadjuk, Balladong, Wilman Boodja, born and raised near Wooditchup on Wardandi Boodja, now based near Walyalup. As an artist, curator, and writer, Zali has a deep passion for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, particularly uplifting Noongar artistic practices.

Zali has curated several exhibitions at various institutions in Western Australia, including Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Walyalup|Fremantle Arts Centre, John Curtin Gallery, Edith Cowan University Gallery, and Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, and the National Art School in Sydney, NSW and internationally at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Tuesday 15 September, 5.30pm-6.30pm AEST

Indigeneity, Illustrated: Art Writing’s Next Generation

In this panel, Indigenous artists and art writers discuss the approaches they bring to writing about art: methods informed by culture, community, and storytelling rather than inherited critical structures.