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.

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Nocturnal: Earthshattering

From profound encounters with the supernatural and the natural world, to the everyday tremors of grief, love and the erotic, each realm of life has the potential to earth-shatter. Words and sounds are the mediums we turn to, to channel these transformative events. Hear stories and tributes to experiences that rooted these artists to the earth or led them to transcend it, presented as part of Nocturnal, Melbourne Museum’s monthly adults-only invite Nocturnal.

Presented in partnership with Melbourne Museum.

Please note: The full exhibition runs from 6PM to 9PM, with EWF artists featuring from 8:15PM.

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Featuring...

Alison J Barton

Alison J Barton is a Wiradjuri poet widely published in Australian and international journals. In 2023 she won several fellowships with the Australian National Writer’s House (Varuna House) and her poetry was recognised in numerous prizes. In both 2022 and 2023, Alison’s work appeared in Best of Australian Poems. She was the inaugural winner of the 2023 University of Cambridge First Nations Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, and took up a two-month writing residency in 2024 with SomoS Arts (Berlin, Germany). Her first full-length collection of poetry, Not Telling, will be published in August with Puncher & Wattmann.

Catherine Dunn

Catherine Dunn is an emerging artist whose practice includes poetry in both Auslan and English as well as theatre performance.

As a bilingual person, her art practice is inspired by the expression of human experience through language which can be both empowering and disenfranchising.

Performance highlights include presenting a panel discussion at Clin d’Oeil in Reims, France for an international Deaf arts festival, a Warehouse Residency at Arts House in 2022 presenting “More Than Words Can Say” and performing “Home Sweet Home” at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2021.

Anneliz Marie Erese

Anneliz Marie Erese is a Filipino writer of prose and poetry. Her works have appeared in Going Down Swinging, The Saturday Paper, Cordite Poetry Review, Meanjin and Island Online, among others. In 2022, she won the Deborah Cass Prize for Writing. She was also a 2023 Scholar at the Faber Writing Academy and a recipient of the Hot Desk Fellowship. Most recently, she was a Resident Writer at the Vermont Studio Center where she was at work on her first novel. She lives and works in unceded Wurundjeri land.

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