Emerging Writers’ Festival is thrilled about Victoria’s first ever Indigenous Literary Festival, Blak & Bright, launching this week. Running from 18-21 February, the festival will include keynotes, performances, workshops, panels and more from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander novelists, storytellers, poets, songwriters, playwrights, comedians, raconteurs and rabble-rousers. Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and readers alike will […]

by Rose Hartley As I fumble my way through the second draft of my novel, writers’ guides call out to me from every corner of my bookcase, claiming to be able to help me craft a story that someone might want to read. The latest one I’ve picked up is Lisa Cron’s Wired for Story, […]

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 […]