'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...

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!

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-...

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...

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...

ONE WEEK TO GO until Masterclass: Playwriting! A full-day masterclass with leading Australian playwrights. Finesse your script, connect with other emerging playwrights and gain practical advice on navigating the world of theatre in 2025. 🗓️ 5 July, 11AM-5:15PM 📍 The Wheeler Centre 🎟️ Tix from $35

Upcoming workshops and masterclasses for writers and thinkers in Naarm/Melbourne. 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀: 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝟱 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆) 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 @emergingwriters.bsky.social 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗝𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗰𝗞𝗮𝘆: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 (𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆) 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 @writersvictoria.bsky.social Find out more here: tinyurl.com/writingevents

Call-out now OPEN for PenPals, a virtual meeting space in partnership w Dublin City of Literature! Ten writers from Melbourne & ten writers from Dublin will meet for virtual sessions in Sept as part of our 2025 festival. 👉Call-out open until 14 July: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/du...

Melbourne Writers Festival is bringing some awesome international authors to Melbourne this weekend! Check out the program and some of the ones we're most excited about! 👇 🎟️ mwf.com.au

Entries are open for the 2025 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, in partnership with Hachette Australia Open to unpublished adult fiction & adult narrative non-fic writers, win $10k and a 12-month publishing mentorship with Hachette ✍️ Full info: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/the-richell-...

Congrats to the Toolkits: Fiction class of 2025! 👏💐 Last night we kicked off the first season for the year, welcoming these young writers into the 12-week fiction program with Anna Kate Blair. You can get to know each of them all a little better here: www.expressmedia.org.au/news/news/me...

LAST CHANCE to grab tickets for tomorrow's Inside the Publishing House event with Hachette Australia!! 👀 Full details and tix here: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/inside-the-p... Don't miss out!! 👇

Win a free pass to attend Sam Elkins' Own Voices Writing Workshop + a free @writersvictoria.bsky.social membership 😲 This May, author Sam Elkin will deliver their Own Voices Writing Workshop with Writers Victoria Entries close Sunday 27 April 11:59pm AEDT: forms.gle/raHZQAAQ375j...

🚨 Applications for @kydmagazine.bsky.social's KYD Mentors Program close Sunday 13 April! Apply to develop your manuscript with Candice Fox, Melanie Cheng, Kate Mildenhalll, Evelyn Araluen, Mark Smith, Sarah Krasnostein or Yassmin Abdel-Magied 👉 Apply: www.killyourdarlings.com.au/kyd-mentors-...

✍️ Join us 10 April, 10AM-4PM, for Inside the Publishing House with Hachette Australia! Hear from authors, publishers, editors, publicists & more, demystifying the industry for writers & budding publishing professionals. 🎟️ Book now: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/inside-the-p...

Australian Poetry's Best of Australian Poems 2024 Showcase is almost here! On 27 March, don't miss Thabani Tshuma, Madison Griffiths, George Kartas, Jeanine Leane, Scott-Patrick Mitchell & more as they bear poetic witness to the year that was 🎟️Book your spot: www.wheelercentre.com/events-ticke...

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⏰ Just over one week left to submit your story to the KYD Flash Fiction Prize! Open to stories between 750–1000 words, the winner will receive $1000, and three runners-up will receive $500. Submissions close at 11:59pm AEDT, Sunday, 23 March. Find more info about the prize here: buff.ly/7vl8nv1

Only a few days left to apply! ✍️ This your chance to curate our 2025 Opening Event + get paid arts programming experience! Open to emerging First Nations creatives until 10 March, 5PM AEDT 👉 Don’t miss out: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/work-with-us/

CLOSING IN ONE WEEK! 🚨 EOIs for emerging First Nations creatives are open to our next Guest Curator - Curate our 2025 Opening Event to your vision! 🔥 EOIs close in ONE WEEK, 10 March (5PM AEDT) 👉 Apply: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/work-with-us/ We are so excited to read your apps!