By Liana Skrzypczak Now in its 19th year, the National Young Writers’ Festival, creative partner of the much celebrated TiNA (This is Not Art festival), just keeps getting better. This year, South Australian co-director, Annie Waters and her team upheld the long-running festival tradition of diversity and inclusion. They were looking for minority voices, multi-disciplinary […]

Want to be a part of the 2016 Emerging Writers’ Festival? This is your chance to help shape the innovative and creative program: it’s all about you! Tell us what you want to hear – the discussions about writing you want to have – and whether you want to be one of the people to […]

Congratulations to our Writer in Resident, Lou Heinrich, who will be going an on exchange to the Bali Emerging Writers Festival thanks to the Emerging Writers Festival. (more…)

By Rose Hartley (SAWC’s Writer in Residence) Melbourne’s Emerging Writers Festival is too big to take in all at once, so I picked the most delicious-sounding events to attend. And what a feast for the ears it was. Launch of Poetic Justice I was in Melbourne for the launch of Poetic Justice: Contemporary Australian Voices […]

By Lou Heinrich Writers’ festivals wonderful. They are the convergence of ideas, the collection of a like-minded community. Going to them are an excellent way to network, stretch understanding and feel like you are living a literary life. I was lucky enough to be invited to attend Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne, which was held […]

Adelaide-based writers! Want to appear at Emerging Writers Festival Adelaide ’14? (more…)

By Vanessa Jones This year I really had no excuse not to go to the 10th Emerging Writers Festival at the end of May. I was invited to be part of a panel, my Adelaide and Melbourne writing buddies would be there and I could go to represent the SA Writers Centre. So far, this has been one […]