Celebrate 20 years of Emerging Writers’ Festival, as the 2023 program is revealed.
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.
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Tuesday 16 May
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
The Wheeler Centre and wheelercentre.com
176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000
Get directionsAccessibility
Accessible toilets available
Assistive Listening
Wheelchair accessible
Auslan Interpreted
Please notify us of all access requirements when booking online so we can assist you with your visit. If you require further information, please contact reception on 03 9094 7800 or ticketing@wheelercentre.com.
Additional Notes
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
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.
View Profile
Hasib Hourani
Hasib Hourani lives and works on unceded Wangal Country. His debut book of poetry, ‘rock flight’, was released in 2024.
Dana Mitchell
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 ...
Gabriella Munoz
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 2018 Digital Writer in Residence at Writers Victoria.
Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh
Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh is a writer, producer and arts worker living and creating on unceded Wurundjeri land. Ruby is currently the Artistic Director and co-CEO of Emerging Writers’ Festival and is a co-founder of the Latinx ...
Beau Windon
Beau Windon is a neurodivergent author of Wiradjuri heritage based in Naarm/Melbourne. He writes quirky stories about quirky people (including his quirky self) and poetry about all of the dark goo coating his mind. In 2021 ...
Jess Zanoni
Jess Zanoni is a writer and musician. She makes music in Arbes and Za Noon. She is the current Program Coordinator of the Emerging Writers' Festival. Her work has appeared in The Age, Cordite Poetry Review, Voiceworks ...