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

Frank Lord

Frank Lord is a writer, poet, artist, and editor living at the bottom of the world. They have had three books of poetry published—Seventy-Seven Tales From Urban Psychosis (2016), A Day in the Life (2017), and SCHLOCK!!! (2024)—and they are a regular contributor to the experimental magazine Unusual Work by Collective Effort Press. Their artwork and concrete poetry have been shortlisted and exhibited across Australia in dive bars, expensive galleries and holy holy government buildings. They have seen the future and they are afraid.

Friday 13 September

Scream Scenes

Dress up in your phantasmic finest for an evening of spine-tingling tales, from writers and ghouls alike.