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.
EWF celebrates the history and creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.
EWF’s audience and artists are made up of writers at all different stages, and it would be remiss not to examine the stage of one’s career, that balances somewhere between emerging and established. Hear from these celebrated writers, about the precarity, challenges and strengths of the mid-career phase.
This event is part of the 2024 NATIONAL WRITERS’ CONFERENCE. Buy a ticket to just one session or get access to the full weekend to advance your skills and get insider industry info.
Wheelchair, Service Animal, Quiet Room (Reception/Level 3 Library), Hearing Loop, Accessible toilets
Sunday 8 September, 3:15PM
The Wheeler Centre
Performance Space Level 2, 176 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, VIC
Tīhema Baker is a Māori writer who descends from the iwi (nations) of Raukawa te Au ki te Tonga, Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. His writing often deconstructs the complex interactions between the Māori and Western worlds, based on professional and personal experience. He is the author of satirical sci-fi novel ‘Turncoat’, which parodies the experiences of Māori public servants and was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024. He is also the author of young adult series ‘The Watchers Trilogy’, and various short stories and essays.
Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (2016), and three novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (2018), The Newcomer (2021), and West Girls (2023). Her work has been shortlisted and long-listed for awards, including the 2024 Stella Prize. Laura was the City of Melbourne’s 2020 Boyd Garret writer-in-residence, a 2020-22 Marten Bequest scholar for prose, and will be a 2025 writer-in-residence at the Keesing Studio in Paris.
Laura McPhee-Browne writes on Wurundjeri land, and has published two novels, CHERRY BEACH and LITTLE PLUM, with a third, LACEY, on the way.
Karen Wyld is an author of Martu descent living on the coast south of Adelaide. They’ve written novels, children’s non-fiction, short stories, narrative non-fiction, and poetry. And co-edited The Rocks Remain: Blak Poetry and Story. Karen is the recipient of the 2024 SA Literary Fellowship (First Nations).
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