Name: Emerging Writers' Festival Program Launch: New Growth
Start: 2023-05-16
End: 2023-05-16
Location: The Wheeler Centre and wheelercentre.com

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Tuesday 16 May

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Location

The Wheeler Centre and wheelercentre.com

176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Accessibility

Accessible toilets available

Assistive Listening

Wheelchair accessible

Auslan Interpreted

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Additional Notes

The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) is one of Australia’s most established and well-respected literary festivals. The Festival exists to develop, nurture and promote Australia’s new writing talent, creating platforms for connecting writing communities and their audiences. Through the flagship festival in Melbourne and an annual program of events, EWF provides opportunities for emerging writers to develop professionally, and supports them to engage new and larger audiences.

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About

Since 2003, the Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) has been tending to Australia’s budding literary talent, establishing roots between writers, nurturing their professional development, and introducing them to new audiences. Join us in celebrating EWF’s 20th birthday, with the launch of the 2023 festival program. Hear from festival artists Renay Barker-Mulholland, Gabriella Munoz, Dana Mitchell and Beau Windon, and the EWF programming team, as they reflect on gradations and growth through writing and readings. Afterwards, mingle and explore the program while sipping on our 20^th anniversary festival drinks at the bar. Presented by Emerging Writers' Festival with the support of the Wheeler Centre.

Featuring

Renay Barker-Mulholland

Renay Barker-Mulholland is a disabled, artist, activist, creator and proud Biripi - Dunghutti woman. She and her work (in all it's forms) aims to defy the imposed colonial boundaries, push toward disability justice, abolition, and share a staunch intersectional perspective.

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Hasib Hourani

Hasib Hourani lives and works on unceded Wangal Country. His debut book of poetry, ‘rock flight’, was released in 2024.

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Dana Mitchell

Dana Mitchell is an emerging playwright, poet and comedian from Melbourne. In her attempts to reconcile the problem of the self as alien, Dana writes about the search for meaning in the trivial and common occurrences in her daily life. In 2019 Dana's debut comedy play DUMMY won best show at the Melbourne University Drama Festival, winning her free admission into Fringe Festival. In 2022 Dana used that prize to stage her second play Revenge Plot at the MElbourne International Comedy Festival, selling out her six-show run.

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Gabriella Munoz

Gabriella Munoz is a Mexican-Australian writer, editor and translator. Her essays and reviews have been published in the Victorian Writer, Eureka Street, Mascara Literary Review, the Sydney Morning Herald and many other places. Her fiction has been published in Djed Press. Gabriella was the 2018 Digital Writer in Residence at Writers Victoria.

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Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh

Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh is a writer, producer and arts worker living and creating on unceded Wurundjeri land. Ruby is currently the Artistic Director and co-CEO of Emerging Writers’ Festival and is a co-founder of the Latinx ...

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Beau Windon

Beau Windon is a neurodivergent author of Wiradjuri heritage based in Naarm/Melbourne. He writes quirky stories about quirky people (including his quirky self) and poetry about all of the dark goo coating his mind. In 2021 ...

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Jess Zanoni

Jess Zanoni is a writer and musician. She makes music in Arbes and Za Noon. She is the current Program Coordinator of the Emerging Writers' Festival. Her work has appeared in The Age, Cordite Poetry Review, Voiceworks ...

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