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Join Emerging Writers’ Festival as they celebrate the official launch of their 22nd year.
In 2025, Emerging Writers' Festival turns a new page. With reimagined event formats and a program bursting with cross-disciplinary projects, community connection and bold creative energy, the Festival continues its mission to platform fresh voices and provide inspirational ground for writers of all ages and stages of their career.
At this special launch event, the Emerging Writers’ Festival team will provide a tour of their 2025 program highlights, core offerings and deep cuts – including transformative workshops, immersive conversations, powerful readings and time to simply write, be and share with fellow storytellers. Then, artists Ella Rowe, Andrew Sutherland, Bayley Turner and Festival Guest Curator Coral Reeve will share new work responding to this year’s evocative artwork.
Make a toast and riffle through your personal copy of the program as the countdown begins for the Festival’s return on Thursday 11 September.
A live stream of this event will be available on this page from 6.30pm AEST, Thursday 7 August.
Presented in partnership with Emerging Writers’ Festival
Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 7 August
6.30 - 7.30pm
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Featuring
Kanika Chopra
Kanika is an avid reader, writer and creator of More than Melanin, a literary publication by and for people of colour and Bla(c)k folks from the LGBTQIA+ community. They have also worked across a few literary festivals, namely ...
Bianca Lucchesi
Bianca is a writer and arts worker with an interest in themes of identity, community and cultural heritage. With an enduring love of words and images, she is often drawn to family and cultural archives as a starting point for creative ...
Coral Reeve
Coral Reeve, the humankind, is a proud Gunditjmara woman, currently living on Wathawurrung Country. She often indulges in too many coffees and the click clack of the keyboard writing short stories and poems. Her writing ...
Ella Rowe
Ella Rowe is a textured hair specialist and dry cutting artist with a passion for empowering clients through natural hair care. With years of hands-on experience and a deep understanding of curls, coils, and waves, Ella brings ...
Andrew Sutherland
Andrew Sutherland (he/they) is a Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker from between Boorloo (Perth) and Singapore, currently based in Naarm on the unceded lands of the Kulin nation. His work draws upon ...
Bayley Turner
Bayley Turner is a proud queer transfem writer and performer. Bayley’s poetry work has been performed as an immersive performance art experience ‘Eve St John’ in Melbourne Fringe (2018), and poetry cabaret confessional ...
Jess Zanoni
Jess Zanoni is a writer, musician and the Artistic Director and Co-CEO of the Emerging Writers' Festival. She has worked, edited and written for various arts, music and literary publications and organisations for the past decade ...