Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 19 June
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
New and emerging writers? You can’t go past the Emerging Writers’ Festival; effectively a festival full of Next Big Things, and a fertile breeding ground for bold experiments in Australian literature.
Come and celebrate the best new writers around – and hear readings from the cream of this year’s EWF crop.
Featuring
Jamie Marina Lau
Jamie Marina Lau is a multidisciplinary artist and the author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island. With explorations focusing on language, Jamie's work meditates on a landscape exploring dis-location of culture and space. Her second novel Gunk Baby will be published in May 2020 with Brow Books.
Brodie Lancaster
Brodie Lancaster is an author and culture critic. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Pitchfork, Vulture, Vogue, The Guardian and some other places. She was the founding editor of Filmme Fatales ...
Daniel Findlay
Dan Findlay is a historian by training and an editor by trade. Dan has over ten years experience working on Australia’s leading youth magazines. He also has over a decade of freelance experience as a writer and photographer for Rolling Stone, as well as contributing the odd music story to Sydney Morning Herald and writing for a wide variety of other pop culture titles. Year of the Orphan is his first novel.
Sally Abbott
Sally Abbott is a former journalist and PR consultant who lives in Central Victoria with her partner and dog. She was the inaugural winner of the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2015. Her first novel, Closing Down, will be published in May 2017.