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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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.