Emerging Writers' Festival

#EWF26 10-18 Sept 2026 | Follow our blog & newsletter

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This Thursday on AusArt Day, we are excited to launch our brand-new initiative, EWF Bookmarkers!

Donors who pledge a minimum of $30 per yearly quarter officially become EWF Bookmarkers.

Find out more: https://t.co/lR0N9PXlE4

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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: https://t.co/WfckqhNJlk

Full details on EWF25 via our website!

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For tickets to these events and details on all EWF25 has to offer, click here: https://t.co/rFwryP981o

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

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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: https://t.co/0JH5Hda6EQ

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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: https://t.co/ij9fIjdyEH

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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: https://t.co/R6QIJ8gI6u

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Take your story to The Next Chapter, @wheelercentre's landmark writing program supporting a new wave of writers!

10 writers will receive $15k & a handpicked mentor. Perfect for emerging writers with manuscripts in progress

Closing 8 Aug 2025: https://t.co/ceTspAPZtP

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We are excited to announce that Mohamed Sudi will be reading at EWF 2025 Program Launch!

Join Mohamed Sudi in responding to this year’s festival artwork ahead of EWF’s return in Sept

📅 6:30PM, 7 Aug
📍 @wheelercentre & online

RSVP here: https://t.co/R6QIJ8gagW

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Take your story to The Next Chapter, @wheelercentre's landmark writing program.
Ten writers will be selected and provided with a stipend of $15,000 and a handpicked mentor.

Emerging writers with manuscripts in progress can apply here: https://t.co/ceTspAPZtP

Closing 8 Aug 2025

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The National Writers' Conference is back! To celebrate, we're releasing EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNTS! 🎟️

Snag a limited-time discount on full weekend passes. This is your chance to access industry insights and publishing networks in Aus! 😱

DON'T MISS OUT: https://t.co/13TJw3r061

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ICYMI:

EWF25 Program Launch is coming!
🗓️6:30PM, 7 Aug
📍The Wheeler Centre & online

Artists Ella Rowe, Andrew Sutherland, Bayley Turner & Guest Curator Coral Reeve will respond to this year's festival artwork as we launch tix for EWF in Sept!

🎟️: https://t.co/R6QIJ8gI6u

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Call-out now OPEN for PenPals, a virtual meeting space in partnership with @DublinCityofLit

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: https://t.co/FUHpZtgO1u

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Indonesian poet & International Booker Prize-longlisted author Norman Erikson Pasaribu sits down to discuss queer poetics, writing across languages and their shimmering collection of poems My Dream Job w Hasib Hourani

🗓️ 11 May, 1:30PM, Capitol Theatre
🎟️https://t.co/PeYiANKR72

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@MelbWritersFest is bringing some awesome international authors to Melbourne this weekend!

Check out the program and some of the event we're most excited about! 👇

🎟️https://t.co/WGf3EzcizP

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Following the runaway success of her debut novel, Detransition, Baby, author Torrey Peters returns to discuss her sophomore book, Stag Dance – an unruly quartet of tales exploring trans life past, present and future

🗓️ 11 May, 5:30PM, Capitol Theatre
🎟️https://t.co/P1hFvJxg8G

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EWF is proud to open entries to the 2025 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, in partnership with @HachetteAus

Open to unpublished adult fiction & adult narrative non-fic writers, win $10k and a 12-month publishing mentorship with Hachette

✍️Full info: https://t.co/qux6tdiOAv

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Win a free pass to attend Sam Elkin's Own Voices Writing Workshop + a free Writers Victoria membership 😲

This May, author Sam Elkin will deliver their Own Voices Writing Workshop with Writers Victoria

Entries close 27 April: https://t.co/JDLhQkdrct

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