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

Zarah Yakubu

Zarah Yakubu (They/She) is an emerging writer and poet of Trawlwoolway/Palawa and Mwaghavul/Sura (Nigerian) heritage from the reputationally mysterious but tangibly quaint and monotonous north of lutruwita/trouwunna/Tasmania. They live and work on the Wurundjeri Country and are undertaking a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at RMIT. She has been published in Mascara Literary Review, Splinter, Island and others.