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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · 7h

Relive EWF25 with 'EWF X Textile Message' now featuring weekly on our blog! @piecedwork.bsky.social

First up is Anne M Carson's piece, which brings together historical embroidery, synchronicity, and poetic biography.
🦄 Read here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · 2d

Tell us how we did! ✨

Our audience feedback survey for EWF25 is now live. We use your feedback to improve our festival for the future. So have your say and help us make the Emerging Writers' Festival even better!

Take the 2-min survey: emergingwritersfestival.wufoo.com/forms/z7pek5...

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · 29d

Announcing the 2025 Richell Prize longlist! ✨

We are delighted, in partnership with the Hachette Australia, to announce the longlist for the 2025 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers.

Full details here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/an...

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · 29d

EWF25 opens today! We're so excited to share these next 8 days of connection & quality writing time with our growing community of writers!

Subscribe to our newsletter for The EWF Edit - regular updates on what's on & upcoming at EWF.
Full details here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/festival?_sf...

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 8

In Robert Lukins' stead, Tim Loveday will join Andrea Thompson and Aan Mansyur to trace back to the beginnings of their creative careers at...

NATIONAL WRITERS' CONFERENCE
📅 13-14 Sept
📍 The Wheeler Centre & online
🎟 Full Weekend Passes available: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/nwc-re...

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 6

Join us this Thursday evening for stories under the stars at Fitzroy Gardens for OPENING NIGHT: FINDING YOUR WAY. 🌌

📅 Thursday 11 September, 6PM
📍Fitzroy Gardens
🎟️ Free / PWYW tickets here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/openin...

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 5

First Nations storytellers CROOKED TP, AJ LEE, MAIJA FLOOD, CORAL REEVE & KIMBERLY LOVEGROVE explore historical paths and guide you along a contemporary Songline.

OPENING NIGHT: FINDING YOUR WAY
📅 11 Sept, 6PM
📍Fitzroy Gardens
🎟️ Free tix: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/openin...

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 5

In Rasha Tayeh's stead, Taj Scicluna joins Miriam Latif & Lori Curran to surface our internalised cultural stories about “wellness” & call to rewrite their meanings.

The Myth of "Wellness"
📅 16 Sept, 4PM @ Studio Take Care
🎟 Free/PWYW tix available: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/the-my...

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

Flow State with Pete Lead
📅 18 Sept, 8:30AM: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/flow-s...
Step out of your head and into the present moment with experiential writing activities.

Flow State - Emerging Writers' Festival

Rediscover the playful joy of writing in this workshop, where you’ll draw on stage improvisation techniques to discover the voice, characters, plot points and dialogue of a story.

emergingwritersfestival.org.au

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

Long Story Short with Katerina Gibson
📅 17 Sept, 10AM: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/long-s...
Take your first short story draft from rough to polished.

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

A Thing That Wants: Love Letter Workshop with Eliza Callil
📅 17 Sept, 8:30AM: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/a-thin...
A fun, casual, collage-style workshop, employing the real love letters of famous writers.

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

EWF25 Book Club with the Literary Lounge
📅 16 Sept, 6PM: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf25-...
Discuss festival author Nadia Mahjouri's debut 'Half Truth' with Temwani Mazaba.

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

Writing with Animal Joy with Eartha Davis at #EWF25
📅 16 Sept, 8:30AM: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writin...
Tune Your poems to the vast, oceanic wisdom welling just below the skin: our non-rational, embodied knowing.

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Morning Writer with Sian Campbell
📅 15 Sept, 8:30AM: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/the-mo...
A writing session is for anyone who finds it easier to get the words out when you’ve got someone to write alongside.

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

Black Out Poetry with August Moulang
📅 12 Sept, 8:30AM: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/black-...
Illuminate poetry hidden in plain sight in this black-out poetry workshop.

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

Make the most of the EWF Festival Hub, open daily for events and workshops where you can connect with other writer and grow your practice together. 💫

Which of these events will we see you at?

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 3

#EWF25 is one week away!

As the festival gets closer, we sat down with EWF’s Associate Producer Kanika Chopra to learn more about what goes into programming a national literary festival, for writers and by writers.

Find out more about the BTS at EWF: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/a-...

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 1

🔓 Unlock your characters' potential in this intensive workshop with acclaimed author Deborah Pike!

📍EWF Festival Hub
🗓️ Wednesday 17 September, 6:30PM
🎟️ Tickets from $20: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writer...

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Sep 1

Everyone has to start somewhere, right? 😬
Acclaimed writers share writing from their past that makes them cringe for #EWF25!

📍Hope Street Radio
🗓️ Tuesday 16 September, 8PM
🎟️ Tickets from $18: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/embrac...

Full details on EWF25 via our website!

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Aug 29

We're so excited for this roundtable comic artists Ariel Ries and Kelly Bull as part of #EWF25!

📍 Ascot Vale Library

⏰ Tuesday 16 September, 6PM

🎟️ Free / PWYW tickets & full details here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/drawn-...

Ariel Slamet Ries @arielries.bsky.social · Aug 25

Me and @kellysketches.bsky.social are doing a roundtable for @emergingwriters.bsky.social! We'll be tackling the nitty gritty details of making comics (and surviving) within the traditional publishing space. Tickets are PWYW, more details here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/drawn-...

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Aug 14

For tickets to these events and details on all EWF25 has to offer, click here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/festival/

We can't wait to see you at our 2025 festival! ✨

EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Aug 14

Close out your EWF experience among friends and community at CLOSING NIGHT: BLUE HOUR LITFAIR by mingling with writers, artists, small publishers and collectives.
📍 Abbotsford Convent
🗓️ 18 September, open 5:30PM - 8:30PM
🎟️ $10 entry: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/closin...

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Aug 14

The NATIONAL WRITERS' CONFERENCE brings together publishing professionals, sharing their knowledge and connecting with emerging writers over a whole weekend!
📍 The Wheeler Centre
🗓️ 13-14 September, 10AM - 5:15PM
🎟️ Weekend Passes available: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/nation...

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Aug 14

EWF25 - OPENING NIGHT: FINDING YOUR WAY

Guest Curator Coral Reeve will guide you along a contemporary Songline, with First Nations oral storytellers as they untangle histories into the present.
📍 Fitzroy Gardens
🗓️ 11 Sept 6PM
🎟️ Pay-What-You-Wish: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/openin...

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EWF @emergingwriters.bsky.social · Aug 6

EWF25 launches TOMORROW NIGHT!!

Don't miss the unveiling of our beautiful 2025 artwork, as well as full tickets for the 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival. 🥳

Pay-What-You-Wish tix and stream link here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/emerging-wri...

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