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.
World-building is crucial when it comes to grounding your characters and their stories. From real places to fantasy lands, these writers have mastered the art of immersing their readers in a time and place. Hear how they do it, and how you can apply their techniques to your own writing.
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
Saturday 7 September, 12PM
The Wheeler Centre
Performance Space Level 2, 176 Lt Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000, VIC
Katherine Brabon is the author of the novels The Memory Artist, The Shut Ins and Body Friend. Her work has received the Vogel’s Literary Award, a NSW Premier’s Literary Award and the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award. Her third novel Body Friend was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the ALS Gold Medal. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne.
Josh Kemp is an author of Australian gothic and crime fiction. His debut novel, Banjawarn, was the winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award, the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction and the 2023 Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Best Emerging Writer. Jasper Cliff is his second novel. He lives in the Sout West of WA but finds himself drawn, over and over again, to the red dirt of the state’s north.
Jamie Marina Lau is a novelist and the author of ‘Pink Mountain on Locust Island’ and ‘Gunk Baby’. She was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Readings Residency Award and Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist. In 2022 Lau was selected to be a Fall resident and the Australian representative at the Iowa International Writers Program.
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