Emerging Writers’ Festival Program Launch: New Growth
When
Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 06:30pm - 07:30pm
Event Status
Past event
Celebrate 20 years of Emerging Writers’ Festival, as the 2023 program is revealed.
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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 20th anniversary festival drinks at the bar.
Presented by Emerging Writers’ Festival with the support of the Wheeler Centre.
Accessibility
Accessible toilets available
Assistive Listening
Wheelchair accessible
Auslan Interpreted
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About the Emerging Writers Festival
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.
Featuring
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.
Hasib Hourani is a Palestinian writer, editor, and arts worker based in Naarm. His practice uses little stories to ask and answer big questions. Hasib has been published in Overland, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, Going Down Swinging, and Voiceworks among others. ... Read more
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 th... Read more
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 20... Read more
Beau Windon is a neurodivergent writer of Wiradjuri descent based in Naarm. His greatest loves are YA and speculative fiction, meaning he spends most of his time writing quirky stories about quirky people in quirky situations. Currently he is focused on developing his hybrid memoir (quirky stories a... Read more
Jess Zanoni is a writer and musician based in Naarm. She makes music in Arbes and Kenza Noon. She is the current Program Coordinator of Emerging Writers Festival. Her work has appeared in The Age, Cordite Poetry Review, Voiceworks, The Victorian Writer, Beat Magazine and sick leave. ... Read more
Location
176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000
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