We can promise some very exciting live music and spoken word performances, from very familiar faces that will make your eyes go fluttery and your underthings catch aflame. Yes there will be more than one room. Yes there will be the chance for audienc...

Adam Liaw on being an Ambassador for the Emerging Writers' Festival.

The literary festival is a form by which we communicate to an audience, and gather together like-minded people. What we do with that form is entirely up to us. It is vital that programmers consider deeply the context in which we live, play, read and...

"I fell madly in love with the festival when I first moved to Melbourne in 2014, and it's been a highlight of my year ever since. I wanted to be closer to and more involved with the festival. It's a great learning and skills-development opportunity t...

"My interpretation of What Right Do I Have changes depending on whether we’re talking about fiction or non-fiction. If we all wrote fiction based on things we had experienced ourselves, we wouldn’t have books like, and I’m casting a wide net of...

"I’m expecting a no-holds-barred, knock-down-drag-out clash between two passionate teams who share a love of language, even as they attempt to use it to disembowel each other’s arguments."

The wonder of women, diversity in publishing, sharing story. Festival artist Allison Whittaker talks about her appearance at the Emerging Writers' Festival this year.

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