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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Artist

Emma Osborne

Emma Osborne is a queer writer and poet from Naarm. Their writing has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Apex Magazine, Pseudopod, PodCastle, the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, WASTELANDS III edited by John Joseph Adams and HOMETOWN HAUNTS, edited by Poppy Nwosu. Emma is a graduate of the 2016 Clarion West Writers Workshop. They are an Aurealis Award and Australian Shadows award finalist. Their novella THE BEAST YOU’VE MADE OF ME is forthcoming at Interstellar Flight Press. Emma lives in Narrm with their girlfriend and many cats.