🔥 #EWF26 artist call-out open! Last year, Tara Kenny applied with her workshop 'Chronicling Cultural Trash' which was hosted at Kathleen Syme Library in EWF25! Want to be part of this year’s festival? Apply like Tara did in the artist call-out! 💻 emergingwritersfestival.org.au/artist-call-...

EWF Artist Call-Out is Open! In 2025, Maki Morita applied as an artist interested in the cultural impacts of AI, this morphed into a performance event 'Writers vs AI'! This could be YOU in 2026! 🫵 Closing 6 Feb Full details & call-out FAQs: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/artist-call-...

Get 10% off EWF events, exclusive goodies, and VIP events by becoming an EWF Bookmarker! Our Bookmarkers' ongoing support means we can continue to do the work we do 🫶 Get involved: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/bookmarkers/

As part of our collaboration with @emergingwriters.bsky.social and @melbcinematheque.bsky.social, Liên Ta reflects on themes of religious devotion and sacrifice in several films screened during the Cinémathèque's season ‘Cine de Oro: Treasures of Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age.' tinyurl.com/2hycfntr

One of our favourite parts of running EWF is making space for creatives of all kinds to come together and forge community connection. 👀 Wanna find your creative community? Apply to EWF26! Full details & FAQs: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/artist-call-... Closing 6 February (11:59PM AEDT)

Artist Call-Out Now Open! ✨ Aastha Agrawal applied for EWF25 as a writer and was featured at our closing night zine market & as part of our online exhibition. This could be you! Apply before the call-out closes on 6 Feb! Full info & call-out FAQs: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/artist-call-...

The Daisy Utemorrah Award is open for entries! 🌼🏆 Read more here: bit.ly/4pcpKYM This Award is generously supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the State Government of Western Australia. Illustration by Pat Torres from 'Do Not Go Around the Edges' by Daisy Utemorrah.

With all this excitement around our open artist call-out, we've been getting some burning questions from our community... We're putting all your worries at ease in our FAQs, plus hints & tips from our team: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/callout-faqs/

JOIN OUR 2026 TEAM! ASSOCIATE PRODUCER 👉 Join our programming team and help shape the creative direction of our national festival. OPERATIONS MANAGER 👉 Work with venues and partners and play an integral part in delivering our 2026 projects. More info: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/work-with-us/

The #EWF26 Artist Call-Out is now open!✨ We're back with online and in-person events from 10-18 September, and we want YOU to be part of it! So, hurry to our website for full details and apply: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/artist-call-... Closing 6 Feb 🗓️

JOIN THE EWF TEAM! 😍 We're hiring for Associate Producer on the EWF team! As associate producer, you'll work with the Artistic Director and Program Producer to curate events and projects within our national literary festival. 👉 Full details: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/work-with-us/

As we close the office for 2025, the Emerging Writers' Festival team would like to say THANK-YOU to our community! This year of experimentation has been one of EWF's most successful yet - that's all down to our wonderful community! ✨ We're excited to do even more with you in 2026! 🫶 📸 Grace Auld

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 🚨 Emerging Writers' Festival returns 10-18 September 2026! We're so excited to create our 2026 festival with you all, so get those artists pitches ready! Our artist call-out opens in early Jan! Be the first to hear on our newsletter: confirmsubscription.com/h/y/06705EEF...

From the stallholder call-out to the beautiful readings, we'll be riding the high of our zine fair at Abbotsford Convent into our 2026 festival! Speaking of call-outs and EWF 2026... get stewing on your EWF26 pitch. Details and artist call-out coming soon: confirmsubscription.com/h/y/06705EEF...

EWF IS HIRING our next Operations Manager! As operations manager you'll play an integral part in the organising and running of a national literary festival for aspiring and emerging writers. 👉 Full details: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/work-with-us/ Closing 18 Jan, 11:59PM

'Every theatre kid at Melbourne uni probably knows Intersection Cafe' For EWF X Veraison Magazine, Victoria Winata's piece 'Intersection Cafe' is available: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/ewf-x-verais... Veraison Magazine is is an independent mag about wine and food, and was featured at EWF25!

This year at Writers vs AI, emerging writers took on the battle against AI and tackled issues of AI and creative industries in the 2020s. Don't miss info on how to pitch your own event at next year's festival coming in our newsletter... 👀 Get your EWF news: confirmsubscription.com/h/y/06705EEF...

On top of practicing a pitch with Aus publishers, 2025 NWC attendees got literary goodie bags and connections with IngramSpark, Faber Writing Academy, Junkee Media, and with emerging writers nationwide! Keep your eyes on our newsletter for 2026 NWC: confirmsubscription.com/h/y/06705EEF...

'An old church hall converted into an Indonesian restaurant. One wall is red, another is teal. There are golden pineapples and painted wooden bird mobiles. Yuni is plating up.' Check out Ella Ferris' piece 'Yuni's Kitchen' for EWF X Veraison Magazine: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/ewf-x-verais...

'Amble into Kelvin Bar wearing your ugliest coat and a non-specific paperback.' As part of EWF X Veraison Magazine, Dylan Murphy's piece 'Barfly' is available to read as part of EWF25 on our website: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/ewf-x-verais...

Before we announce our 2026 festival, we're so nostalgic for the opening night of EWF25! Curated by guest curator Coral Reeve, First Nations storytellers guided our audience along a contemporary Songline. Stay updated on what's next for EWF: confirmsubscription.com/h/y/06705EEF...

This week, Trish Bolton invites us to contemplate the 'wardrobes' that come with age, and the ways we choose to conform, as part of the EWF25 exhibition 'EWF X Textile Message'! ✨ Read here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...

'Does elsewhere exist or is its elusiveness the very point? Is this life enough?' This week, Shu-Ling Chua invites us into interdisciplinary meditations, as part of the EWF25 exhibition 'EWF X Textile Message'! ✨ Read here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...

This week, Mira Roberston traces personal histories in the garments of decades, as part of the EWF25 exhibition with 'EWF X Textile Message' with us! ✨ Read here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te... Textile Message is a collaborative project about clothes and other textile objects.

This week, we're sharing Leila Lois' reflections on culture and comfort, as part of the EWF25 exhibition 'EWF X Textile Message'! ✨ Read here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...

Relive the EWF25 exhibition with 'EWF X Textile Message' with us! This week, we're sharing Julia English's poetry and reflections on the ways we notice change in ourselves. ✨ Read here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...

Relive the EWF25 exhibition with 'EWF X Textile Message' now featuring weekly on our blog! This week, we're rewinding back to Emilie Collyer's piece reflecting on personal histories intertwined with fabric and clothing. ✨ Read here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...

We want to continue being able to create accessible spaces for writers to come together in community. You can help us today! ✨ Become an EWF Bookmarker, and help us raise our artist fees to make work as a writer more liveable & sustainable Join today: emergingwritersfestival.org.au

We're so lucky have festival alumni Tzeyi Koay & Christos Tsiolkas share on the importance of communities for new writers. If you'd like to support our work this AusArt Day, you can become an EWF Bookmarker and receive some amazing literary goodies! Full info: emergingwritersfestival.org.au

The average Australian writers' salary is less than $19k so imagine what it's like for writers who don't have a book published! EWF Bookmarkers is your way to be able to support emerging writers & make working as a writer more sustainable Become an EWF Bookmarker: emergingwritersfestival.org.au

We've made it halfway through AusArt Day, and we're so honoured by the support and donations we've received thus far! If you'd like to support our work, pledge as an EWF Bookmarker today to receive a tonne of literary perks! Support the future of the arts: emergingwritersfestival.org.au

EWF Bookmarkers is our new way to support our mission to raise our artist fees and make working as an artist a liveable and sustainable option for emerging writers. Become an EWF Bookmarker by pledging $30 or more quarterly to support our festival and receive awesome literary perks!

This AusArt Day, we are delighted to launch a new way for your to support our festival -- EWF Bookmarkers! This initiative is for ongoing donors who pledge $30 or more quarterly to help us raise our artist fees and further support our growing community Find out more: emergingwritersfestival.org.au

Emerging Writers' Festival is all about championing and nurturing new writer and new literature, and EWF Bookmarkers is our brand-new way for our community to support what we do, while getting some awesome literary perks! Become an EWF Bookmarker: emergingwritersfestival.org.au

EWF Bookmarkers is our new donor initiative to help us raise our artist fees and make working writer more sustainable and accessible! By raising funds this AusArt Day, we are able to build a sustainable model towards increasing our artist fees into the future. emergingwritersfestival.org.au

This AusArt Day, EWF is raising funds to raise our artist fees and make working as writer more accessible and sustainable. To make it easy for you to support what we're doing, we've launched a brand-new fundraising initiative: EWF Bookmarkers Full info here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au

We are delighted to participate in Creative Australia's AusArt Day to launch our new donor initiative, EWF Bookmarkers! By pledging as an EWF Bookmarker, you're helping us raise our artist fees and make working as writer more accessible and sustainable in 2025. emergingwritersfestival.org.au

What are your favourite EWF memories? 😍 TOMORROW IS THE DAY to share your EWF memories and tag us to support our AusArt Day donation campaign! Find out more: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/bookmarkers/ Big thanks to Taylor Bennie-Faull & Ariel Reyes for their amazing videography work!

SAVE THE DATE for AusArt Day to join EWF's new initiative and support us in raising our artist fees to make working as an emerging writer more accessible! This is the best way for you to show your support for our festival’s work! 👀 Find out more: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/supporting-t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

#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-...

🔓 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...