The Emerging Writers’ Festival work, learn and play largely on the land of the Kulin nation, and pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.

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14 April, 2016

Program Launch artist: Rajith Savanadasa

"I think ambition and failure are more closely related than we tend to realise. You pretty much can’t have one without the other. When I look back at some of my (many) failures, they’ve occurred because of ambition, but then I’ve picked myself...