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Join Emerging Writers’ Festival as they celebrate the official launch of their 23rd year.
Emerging Writers' Festival returns in 2026 with a vibrant program of cross-disciplinary projects, shared inquiry and bold creative energy. Bringing together writers, artists and audiences across generations and practices, the Festival remains a vital space for emerging voices, creative experimentation and literary community.
At this special launch event, the Emerging Writers’ Festival team will lift the curtain on this year’s program highlights, hidden gems and signature offerings – from transformative workshops and immersive conversations to powerful readings and spaces for reflection, connection and creative exchange. The evening will also feature new work from Chloe Mayne, Ella Rowe, Lucy Fan Xu and Festival Guest Curator moirra.
Celebrate with a toast, explore your personal copy of the program and begin the countdown to the 2026 Emerging Writers’ Festival.
Presented in partnership with Emerging Writers’ Festival
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 5 August
6.30 - 7.30pm
Tickets
$19.50
Full
$15.50
Concession
$15.50
Under 30
$0.00
Pay What You Wish
Location
Accessibility
Accessible toilets available
Assistive Listening
Auslan-Interpreted
Companion tickets available
Registered Assistance Animals welcome
Wheelchair accessible
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Featuring
moirra.
moirra. (he/him/hir; xe/xer/xers) is a Yorta Yorta, Boon Wurrung, and Jewish transsexual poet, writer and artist living on Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country. Xer work explores Blak Queerness and Queer Blakness, disability ...
Lucy Fan Xu
Lucy Fan Xu (she/her) is a writer based in Naarm. Her works, which have previously been published in Voiceworks, HOISZN and Red Pocket Press, orbit around themes of resistance, identity and community. She ...
Bianca Lucchesi
Bianca is a writer and artist who is passionate about bringing people together through shared experiences. With a background in anthropology and a deep interest in people and culture, she has worked across several ...
Chloe Mayne
Chloe Mayne is a Tasmanian poet and scholar whose work has appeared in Cordite, Overland and Best of Australian Poems. A descendant of the Trawlwoolway people of the island's north-east, as well as many ...
Parth Rahatekar
Parth is the Associate Producer at Emerging Writers Festival, performance poet and writer from Pune, currently based in Naarm ...
Ella Rowe
Ella Rowe is an Australian–Papua New Guinean hair artist, textured hair specialist, and founder of Elvies Studios in Melbourne. Passionate about celebrating curly, coily, afro, and textured hair, Ella has built a ...
Jess Zanoni
Jess Zanoni is a writer, musician and the Artistic Director and Co-CEO of the Emerging Writers' Festival. She has worked, edited and written for various arts, music and literary publications and organisations for over a ...