"I know I’m not just a dancer, I could be so much more – a writer, an artist, an inspiration"

The 2017 Emerging Writers’ Festival is full of opportunities to perform your work to a live audience. We round up a list of the open mic events at EWF 2017.

"I think about physicality, how the reader’s body feels, how their surrounds smell and look, what happened just before this scene and the residue left within them."

"I once saw somebody dislocate their knee on a stage – avoiding that has been my one focus since."

“I’d like to tell stories until I have no more stories to tell, then I’ll retreat somewhere with my shiba inu and cat where I’ll go back to drinking whisky and telling stories to myself.”

"In my first year of university a non-fiction tutor stood up in front of the class and announced that being a successful writer was almost an impossible goal"

We chat with Sian about her career as deputy editor of Overland Magazine and what it’s like working on the other side of the page.

"Coffee helps."