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                <title>Writing Thrillers: How to Kill Your Darlings (Literally) Wordcrafters &#038; EWF</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writing-thrillers-wordcrafters-ewf/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Craft compelling thriller fiction and traumatise your readers in the best possible way. You’ll walk away with the tools to knock them dead.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Craft compelling thriller fiction and traumatise your readers in the best possible way. You’ll walk away with the tools to knock them dead.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Workshop</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Opening Night: .RETRIBUTION.</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/opening-night-retribution/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Experience a night of terror, rage, and retribution, featuring Blak writers from across the continent. Horror will be appropriated and re-imagined as Indigenous self-determination is projected back onto the settler gaze.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Experience a night of terror, rage, and retribution, featuring Blak writers from across the continent. Horror will be appropriated and re-imagined as Indigenous self-determination is projected back onto the settler gaze.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Local Lore</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/local-lore/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Think your hometown is boring, but desperate to craft the next Monkey Grip? Lucky for you, every town contains its own weird and fascinating stories. Join debut author Claire Sullivan for a fruitful dive into the strange and interesting fodder of local lore.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Think your hometown is boring, but desperate to craft the next Monkey Grip? Lucky for you, every town contains its own weird and fascinating stories. Join debut author Claire Sullivan for a fruitful dive into the strange and interesting fodder of local lore.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Mindful Meets: Summoning the Writer</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/mindful-meets-summoning-the-writer/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join us at the beginning of the festival for a relaxed social gathering, where you’ll have the chance to connect with others, reflect on your creative practice, and craft a written or artistic piece for your future self.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join us at the beginning of the festival for a relaxed social gathering, where you’ll have the chance to connect with others, reflect on your creative practice, and craft a written or artistic piece for your future self.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Who I Am: Putting Your Life to a Beat</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/who-i-am-putting-your-life-to-a-beat/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Much of acclaimed hip hop artist Kultar Ahluwalia's work has revolved around autobiographical storytelling. Allow him to guide you in fusing identity, self-expression and storytelling to the rhythm of a beat]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Much of acclaimed hip hop artist Kultar Ahluwalia's work has revolved around autobiographical storytelling. Allow him to guide you in fusing identity, self-expression and storytelling to the rhythm of a beat]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>The Writer Aquatic</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/the-writer-aquatic/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Soak in an evening of poetic musings related to the ritual of lap-swimming, and the vital role that public pools play in the writer’s imagination, and to their wellbeing. Go ahead and take a dusk dip before or after the reading, at a discounted price.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Soak in an evening of poetic musings related to the ritual of lap-swimming, and the vital role that public pools play in the writer’s imagination, and to their wellbeing. Go ahead and take a dusk dip before or after the reading, at a discounted price.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Forever 16: YA Workshop</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/forever-16-ya-workshop/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Explore iconic coming of age books beloved across generations, from Little Women and Looking for Alibrandi to the Summer I Turned Pretty. Why do we keep returning to them? Through discussion and guided writing exercises led by forthcoming debut author Meg McDermott, examine what these stories have in common.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Explore iconic coming of age books beloved across generations, from Little Women and Looking for Alibrandi to the Summer I Turned Pretty. Why do we keep returning to them? Through discussion and guided writing exercises led by forthcoming debut author Meg McDermott, examine what these stories have in common.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>2026 &#8216;Time To Write&#8217; Paragraph Fellowship Celebration</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/2026-paragraph-fellowship/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join us for the special announcement of the two winners of the $25,000 2026 Paragraph Fellowship. Enjoy a reading of both their works, and a panel conversation between the 2025 Paragraph Fellow Grace Chan, EWF Executive Director &#038; Co-CEO Jes Layton, and the chair of Time to Write, celebrated author Toni Jordan.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join us for the special announcement of the two winners of the $25,000 2026 Paragraph Fellowship. Enjoy a reading of both their works, and a panel conversation between the 2025 Paragraph Fellow Grace Chan, EWF Executive Director &#038; Co-CEO Jes Layton, and the chair of Time to Write, celebrated author Toni Jordan.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Stranger than Fiction</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/stranger-than-fiction/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join four writers to unpick medical misogyny and misinformation.Their writing reflects on personal and collective experiences where pain is dismissed, instincts doubted, the body misread. Amid systemic bias and gendered gaslighting, these stories of self-advocacy are starting to come to the fore.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join four writers to unpick medical misogyny and misinformation.Their writing reflects on personal and collective experiences where pain is dismissed, instincts doubted, the body misread. Amid systemic bias and gendered gaslighting, these stories of self-advocacy are starting to come to the fore.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>So you want to self-publish a novel?</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/so-you-want-to-self-publish-a-novel/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join award-nominated, self-published author J.S.Harman as he shares everything he’s learned about independent publishing since releasing his debut DARK SANDS, an Aurealis Award finalist. Expect anecdotes, learnings, reflections and practical checklists galore, and hear about everything from ISBNs to sourcing an editor.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join award-nominated, self-published author J.S.Harman as he shares everything he’s learned about independent publishing since releasing his debut DARK SANDS, an Aurealis Award finalist. Expect anecdotes, learnings, reflections and practical checklists galore, and hear about everything from ISBNs to sourcing an editor.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Poetics of Pop</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/poetics-of-pop/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Could doom scrolling really help you to write your next poem?
Is your next literary masterpiece hiding behind a pop diva's lyric?
How many labubus does it take to heal a heartbreak?]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Could doom scrolling really help you to write your next poem?
Is your next literary masterpiece hiding behind a pop diva's lyric?
How many labubus does it take to heal a heartbreak?]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Poetry and its Neighbours: Voiceworks at EWF</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/poetry-neighbours-voiceworks/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join Voiceworks editors Saanjana Kapoor and Eve Tramacchi O’Keeffe for a two-part workshop at the Melbourne Art Library.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join Voiceworks editors Saanjana Kapoor and Eve Tramacchi O’Keeffe for a two-part workshop at the Melbourne Art Library.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Writing Hopeful Climate Futures</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writing-hopeful-climate-futures/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Come along for a warm drink and warmer conversation with creatives in the climate space. Hear from artists, ask questions and meet new people to embrace the healing power of art and strengthen our hope muscles.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Come along for a warm drink and warmer conversation with creatives in the climate space. Hear from artists, ask questions and meet new people to embrace the healing power of art and strengthen our hope muscles.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
                                			</item>
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                <title>Crush Cabaret</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/crush-cabaret/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Expand your definition of love at a lighthearted variety night!
Indulge in songs, poetry and laughter, and perhaps share a confession of your own.
Romantic, platonic, artistic, queer, straight, lingering - all forms of crush are welcome.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Expand your definition of love at a lighthearted variety night!
Indulge in songs, poetry and laughter, and perhaps share a confession of your own.
Romantic, platonic, artistic, queer, straight, lingering - all forms of crush are welcome.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; Pitch Perfect</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-pitch-perfect/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Find out the must-haves for delivering a great pitch and the pitfalls to avoid. This session will provide the guidance of a publishing industry leader to help whip your pitch into perfect shape.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Find out the must-haves for delivering a great pitch and the pitfalls to avoid. This session will provide the guidance of a publishing industry leader to help whip your pitch into perfect shape.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; Submit, Sign or Start a Small Press</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-submit-sign-or-start-a-small-press/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/national-writers-conference-submit-sign-or-start-a-small-press/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[This panel explores small press publishing and assisted self-publishing as an effective and exciting way to publish your work as you intend. Join the professionals to demystify editing, book design, print, and the publicity, distribution and sales of your work, your way.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[This panel explores small press publishing and assisted self-publishing as an effective and exciting way to publish your work as you intend. Join the professionals to demystify editing, book design, print, and the publicity, distribution and sales of your work, your way.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; First Press: Debut Authors</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-first-press-debut-authors/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Peek behind the curtain and learn what it takes to get your first book published, from those who have made the leap.
This year’s newest cohort of authors share their creative insights, experiences in the publishing industry and valuable tips for getting ideas off the ground.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Peek behind the curtain and learn what it takes to get your first book published, from those who have made the leap.
This year’s newest cohort of authors share their creative insights, experiences in the publishing industry and valuable tips for getting ideas off the ground.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; Finding the Energy: Structure, Story and Sentence</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-finding-the-energy-structure-story-and-sentence/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[In this session, novelist and Faber Writing Academy Writing a Novel tutor Miles Allinson will examine the idea of energy. Through a variety of literary examples, explore ways of tapping the energy in your own work.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[In this session, novelist and Faber Writing Academy Writing a Novel tutor Miles Allinson will examine the idea of energy. Through a variety of literary examples, explore ways of tapping the energy in your own work.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; The Book Deal Podcast: EWF Edition</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-the-book-deal-podcast-ewf-edition/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Live on stage, Toni will address your most pressing and confidential writing and publishing dilemmas – from rejections, to craft, to creative roadblocks and more. Hosts and debut authors Natasha, Tina and Madeleine will also reflect on the lessons they learned when they published their first books.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Live on stage, Toni will address your most pressing and confidential writing and publishing dilemmas – from rejections, to craft, to creative roadblocks and more. Hosts and debut authors Natasha, Tina and Madeleine will also reflect on the lessons they learned when they published their first books.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; Funding 101</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-funding-101/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Learn where to find grants and uncover the essentials of writing them. Allow writer and critic Astrid Edwards to guide you through practical tips, insights and behind the scenes considerations when it comes to funding submissions, and how to give yourself the best shot at having your writing financially supported.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Learn where to find grants and uncover the essentials of writing them. Allow writer and critic Astrid Edwards to guide you through practical tips, insights and behind the scenes considerations when it comes to funding submissions, and how to give yourself the best shot at having your writing financially supported.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; A Writers&#8217; Livelihood</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-a-writers-livelihood/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Hear from a selection of writers working across disciplines, as they discuss how their various interests inform their writing life, and vice versa. This panel will explore vital topics, including the age-old question of time vs money and how to make ends meet, as well as how to prioritise, and when (or when not) to compromise.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hear from a selection of writers working across disciplines, as they discuss how their various interests inform their writing life, and vice versa. This panel will explore vital topics, including the age-old question of time vs money and how to make ends meet, as well as how to prioritise, and when (or when not) to compromise.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; Writing Responsibly</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-writing-responsibly/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Hear from an eclectic panel about the importance of writing with sensitivity, and the ethics, consultation and care that is required when constructing characters and lives very different to one’s own.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hear from an eclectic panel about the importance of writing with sensitivity, and the ethics, consultation and care that is required when constructing characters and lives very different to one’s own.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; How to Tell a Story</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-how-to-tell-a-story/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Hear from novelists known for their riveting storytelling, as they consider this idea, and contemplate the devices and learnings that make for a great novel.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hear from novelists known for their riveting storytelling, as they consider this idea, and contemplate the devices and learnings that make for a great novel.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
                                			</item>
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                <title>NWC &#8211; Who Are You Writing For?</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/national-writers-conference-who-are-you-writing-for/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[A question essential to any writer, but one often forgotten about. Many authors will answer "myself”, but the shift from writing for yourself, to writing for your readers, is a profound one that can drastically improve your writing. A panel that will help you identify who your reader is, and importantly, how to write for both them and yourself.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[A question essential to any writer, but one often forgotten about. Many authors will answer "myself”, but the shift from writing for yourself, to writing for your readers, is a profound one that can drastically improve your writing. A panel that will help you identify who your reader is, and importantly, how to write for both them and yourself.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>National Writers' Conference</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Writing Against Self-Censorship</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writing-against-self-censorship/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[This workshop invites writers to identify and interrogate the voices--both internal and external--that shape what gets written down, and what stays silent. Through guided exercises and group discussion, participants will develop strategies for writing with greater freedom despite today's constrained conditions.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[This workshop invites writers to identify and interrogate the voices--both internal and external--that shape what gets written down, and what stays silent. Through guided exercises and group discussion, participants will develop strategies for writing with greater freedom despite today's constrained conditions.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Map of Lost Places</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/map-of-lost-pages/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[We invite you to walk with us and share in these lost places of Melbourne, where shops, cafes, social worlds and zones of becoming are reignited and reclaimed by collective memory.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[We invite you to walk with us and share in these lost places of Melbourne, where shops, cafes, social worlds and zones of becoming are reignited and reclaimed by collective memory.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Open Air</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
                                			</item>
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                <title>EWF X Deco Radio Listening Room</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-deco-radio-listening-room/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/ewf-x-deco-radio-listening-room/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Join audio journal Deco Radio in a live listening event. 

 Deco Radio publishes audio stories that feature collaboration between a writer and a sonic practitioner. Combining in alchemic storytelling, the platform traverses literary and sonic forms of expression.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join audio journal Deco Radio in a live listening event. 

 Deco Radio publishes audio stories that feature collaboration between a writer and a sonic practitioner. Combining in alchemic storytelling, the platform traverses literary and sonic forms of expression.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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					<item>
                <title>Skew: Truth and Obscurity in Creative Nonfiction</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/skew-truth-and-obscurity-in-creative-nonfiction/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/skew-truth-and-obscurity-in-creative-nonfiction/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Join three writers at the fulcrum of reality, traversing the terrains of archival poetics, unorthodox nonfiction, personal speculative fiction and beyond.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join three writers at the fulcrum of reality, traversing the terrains of archival poetics, unorthodox nonfiction, personal speculative fiction and beyond.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Modern Mehfil</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/modern-mehfil/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Part of the syncretic heritage of South Asia, a mehfil is an intimate, often formal gathering for the performing arts. Bring your yearning words, poetry and feelings or simply swing by to hear our featured performers take you through a queer reimagination of this affair.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Part of the syncretic heritage of South Asia, a mehfil is an intimate, often formal gathering for the performing arts. Bring your yearning words, poetry and feelings or simply swing by to hear our featured performers take you through a queer reimagination of this affair.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>What the Machine Won&#8217;t Tell You</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/pen-melbourne-event/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[AI can write a sentence. It can&#8217;t tell you why the sentence matters, or what you lost in letting it decide.&#160; Join writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist Jeff Sparrow in conversation with Preeshita Shah, journalist and Asia-Pacific Regional Representative for the PEN International&#8217;s Young Writers Committee, for an hour on what AI is changing [&#8230;]]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[AI can write a sentence. It can&#8217;t tell you why the sentence matters, or what you lost in letting it decide.&#160; Join writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award-winning journalist Jeff Sparrow in conversation with Preeshita Shah, journalist and Asia-Pacific Regional Representative for the PEN International&#8217;s Young Writers Committee, for an hour on what AI is changing [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Prompt Making with Collage</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/prompt-making-with-collage/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join writer and multidisciplinary creative Elena Hogan for this low-pressure introduction to collage as a vehicle for creative writing. Bring any materials you’re happy to cut and paste. Old books and magazines will be provided.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join writer and multidisciplinary creative Elena Hogan for this low-pressure introduction to collage as a vehicle for creative writing. Bring any materials you’re happy to cut and paste. Old books and magazines will be provided.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Speculate: Workshop, Lunch and Launch</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/speculate-workshop-lunch-and-launch/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Come for an afternoon of speculation in this three-part special series of events (panel, workshop, lunchtime launch) where we ask what is the role of fiction in regenerative futures? How can writing speculatively help us imagine and inhabit the future?]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Come for an afternoon of speculation in this three-part special series of events (panel, workshop, lunchtime launch) where we ask what is the role of fiction in regenerative futures? How can writing speculatively help us imagine and inhabit the future?]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Shadow Puppet Zine Making Workshop</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/shadow-puppet-zine-making-workshop/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Explore storytelling, paper craft, and illustration through a unique handmade format. Combining elements of generative writing, bookmaking, puppetry, and visual storytelling, be introduced to a playful and imaginative approach to creating artworks.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Explore storytelling, paper craft, and illustration through a unique handmade format. Combining elements of generative writing, bookmaking, puppetry, and visual storytelling, be introduced to a playful and imaginative approach to creating artworks.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Poetry&#8217;s Negative Space</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/poetrys-negative-space/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/poetrys-negative-space/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Led by Sydney-based award-winning poet and debut author Munira Tabassum Ahmed, experiment with erasure and white space on the page; a silence symmetrical to voice.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Led by Sydney-based award-winning poet and debut author Munira Tabassum Ahmed, experiment with erasure and white space on the page; a silence symmetrical to voice.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Writing with Space</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writing-with-space/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Write into the cosmos in this workshop that seeks to uncover the myriad ways we imagine our place in Space. Explore science and speculative fiction as a world-building process, using space exploration as a canvas for our imagination.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Write into the cosmos in this workshop that seeks to uncover the myriad ways we imagine our place in Space. Explore science and speculative fiction as a world-building process, using space exploration as a canvas for our imagination.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Flesh &amp; Form: Writing the Body</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/flesh-and-form-writing-the-body/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/flesh-and-form-writing-the-body/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[An intimate salon examining the relationship between embodiment and writing. 
 From the physical to the written form, explore how writing might trouble popular conceptions of the body, gesturing towards its dizzying, and perhaps liberatory potentials.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[An intimate salon examining the relationship between embodiment and writing. 
 From the physical to the written form, explore how writing might trouble popular conceptions of the body, gesturing towards its dizzying, and perhaps liberatory potentials.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Writers' Salon</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Art Activism &amp; Writing Lived Experience: Beyond Confession</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/art-activism-writing-lived-experience/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/art-activism-and-writing-lived-experience-beyond-confession/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Explore how writing and art activism can transform lived experience into critical, collective narratives, without relying on confession or personal exposure.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Explore how writing and art activism can transform lived experience into critical, collective narratives, without relying on confession or personal exposure.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>The Next Big Thing</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/the-next-big-thing/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join us for a vibrant evening of readings and celebration as The Wheeler Centre and Emerging Writers’ Festival join forces to spotlight five of Australia’s up-and-coming literary stars.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join us for a vibrant evening of readings and celebration as The Wheeler Centre and Emerging Writers’ Festival join forces to spotlight five of Australia’s up-and-coming literary stars.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Shut Up and Write!</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/twc-shut-up-and-write/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/twc-presents-shut-up-and-write/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Writing is often treated as something you do alone. The Wheeler Centre offers an alternative: write alongside others, without comparison or competition.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Writing is often treated as something you do alone. The Wheeler Centre offers an alternative: write alongside others, without comparison or competition.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Partner</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Indigeneity, Illustrated: Art Writing&#8217;s Next Generation</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/indigeneity-illustrated/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/indigeneity-illustrated-art-writings-next-generation/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[In this panel, Indigenous artists and art writers discuss the approaches they bring to writing about art: methods informed by culture, community, and storytelling rather than inherited critical structures.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[In this panel, Indigenous artists and art writers discuss the approaches they bring to writing about art: methods informed by culture, community, and storytelling rather than inherited critical structures.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Reimagining the Archives</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/reimagining-the-archives/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[The archives are rich places for understanding our history. But for many marginalised people, archival stories are only told through police reports, medical documents, and institutional records. These documents are all told from the perspectives of those in power. How can archival research be used to recover and reimagine the voices that dominant narratives have tried to silence?]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[The archives are rich places for understanding our history. But for many marginalised people, archival stories are only told through police reports, medical documents, and institutional records. These documents are all told from the perspectives of those in power. How can archival research be used to recover and reimagine the voices that dominant narratives have tried to silence?]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Unfinished Business: Writing Memory, Place and Uncertainty</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/unfinished-business/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Drawing on Australian Gothic traditions, join prize-nominated writer Shannon Benton to explore memory as something unstable and shape-shifting, where ambiguity and atmosphere become powerful, creative tools. Experiment with fragments, uncertainty, and emotional truth, while considering how place, longing, and inherited narratives shape the stories we tell.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Drawing on Australian Gothic traditions, join prize-nominated writer Shannon Benton to explore memory as something unstable and shape-shifting, where ambiguity and atmosphere become powerful, creative tools. Experiment with fragments, uncertainty, and emotional truth, while considering how place, longing, and inherited narratives shape the stories we tell.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Writers' Salon</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Faber Writing Academy Anthology Launch</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/faber-writing-academy-anthology-launch/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Head on down to The Wheeler Centre for the launch of the 2026 Faber Writing Anthology, featuring readings from submission-ready graduates of the Writing a Novel program alongside students from Writing a Creative Nonfiction Book.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Head on down to The Wheeler Centre for the launch of the 2026 Faber Writing Anthology, featuring readings from submission-ready graduates of the Writing a Novel program alongside students from Writing a Creative Nonfiction Book.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Partner</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Writing Crime</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writing-crime/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join celebrated crime author Troy Hunter for a fun workshop on  crime writing.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join celebrated crime author Troy Hunter for a fun workshop on  crime writing.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Writing on Art</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writing-on-art/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join writer, critic and author of Foreign Return, Neha Kale for an online workshop on the craft and possibilities of writing on art.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join writer, critic and author of Foreign Return, Neha Kale for an online workshop on the craft and possibilities of writing on art.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Tapestries of Home</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/tapestries-of-home/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Hear from a group of writers as they meet at the nexus of emotion and memory, uncovering what it means to be tied to people, places, rituals and traditions.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hear from a group of writers as they meet at the nexus of emotion and memory, uncovering what it means to be tied to people, places, rituals and traditions.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Writing Back to Climate Crisis: An Eco-Storytelling Workshop</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/writing-back-to-climate-crisis/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join playwright and researcher Oliver Gough in a practice-led workshop on writing the era of climate crisis in all its messy, intense, ironic and darkly funny chaos.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join playwright and researcher Oliver Gough in a practice-led workshop on writing the era of climate crisis in all its messy, intense, ironic and darkly funny chaos.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Developing an Emerging Writers’ Profile</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/developing-an-emerging-writers-profile/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[In this roundtable, writer &#038; editor Thirangie Jayatilake invites you into an open dialogue, addressing concerns that many emerging writers have: When can you call yourself a writer? How many publications or accolades do you need? What strategies can you use to insert yourself into the Australian literary culture, and build confidence?]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[In this roundtable, writer &#038; editor Thirangie Jayatilake invites you into an open dialogue, addressing concerns that many emerging writers have: When can you call yourself a writer? How many publications or accolades do you need? What strategies can you use to insert yourself into the Australian literary culture, and build confidence?]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Written Out: How Australian Media Is Failing Disability Representation</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/written-out/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[This panel brings together artists working in various pockets of the creative industries to share their stories, perspectives and lived experience. Together they’ll celebrate how far we’ve come, reckon with how far we haven’t, and dream up the future that disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent people deserve.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[This panel brings together artists working in various pockets of the creative industries to share their stories, perspectives and lived experience. Together they’ll celebrate how far we’ve come, reckon with how far we haven’t, and dream up the future that disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent people deserve.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>What Brings You To The Table?</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/what-brings-you-to-the-table/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Hear from a panel of hospitality gurus, shaping the food culture here in Melbourne.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hear from a panel of hospitality gurus, shaping the food culture here in Melbourne.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Speaking to Pictures</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/speaking-to-pictures/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[An EWF edition of Pink Ember Studio’s ongoing event, the night brings together artists with stories that usually tinker with emotions in tiny boxes, but deserve big stages.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[An EWF edition of Pink Ember Studio’s ongoing event, the night brings together artists with stories that usually tinker with emotions in tiny boxes, but deserve big stages.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Independent Journalism in Today&#8217;s Political Climate</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/independent-journalism-in-todays-political-climate/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join Antoun Issa, Soaliha Iqbal, and Monique Hurley for a conversation about sustaining critical reporting in hostile conditions.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join Antoun Issa, Soaliha Iqbal, and Monique Hurley for a conversation about sustaining critical reporting in hostile conditions.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Yes, you can lie in a song</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/yes-you-can-lie-in-a-song/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join the South Africa-born, award-winning songwriter, musician and poet as she shares practical ways to bend the facts in order to uncover them. Play with language (as irreverently as possible), honour and rewrite your histories, be specific, weird and wrong.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join the South Africa-born, award-winning songwriter, musician and poet as she shares practical ways to bend the facts in order to uncover them. Play with language (as irreverently as possible), honour and rewrite your histories, be specific, weird and wrong.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Stori: Storytelling in Melanesia</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/stori-storytelling-in-melanesia/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join storytellers Ella Rowe, Tahlia Bowen, Koteka Wenda and Mereani Qalovakawasa for Stori: Storytelling in Melanesia. Through words, art, music and Tok Stori, hear spellbinding tales of their homelands.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join storytellers Ella Rowe, Tahlia Bowen, Koteka Wenda and Mereani Qalovakawasa for Stori: Storytelling in Melanesia. Through words, art, music and Tok Stori, hear spellbinding tales of their homelands.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Lifecycle of a Book with Simon &amp; Schuster</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/lifecycle-of-a-book-simon-and-schuster/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[An in-demand masterclass that lifts the curtain on the industry operations of a book’s publication. Led by Simon &#038; Schuster top publishing professionals]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[An in-demand masterclass that lifts the curtain on the industry operations of a book’s publication. Led by Simon &#038; Schuster top publishing professionals]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Partner</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>So be it! See to it!: Manifesto Writing Workshop</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/so-be-it-see-to-it-manifesto-writing-workshop/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[This workshop is inspired by the personal manifestos of Octavia Butler and the laws of manifestation. Through individual and collective reflections, explore your core values, needs and barriers to inspire a guiding vision that can be returned to, again and again.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[This workshop is inspired by the personal manifestos of Octavia Butler and the laws of manifestation. Through individual and collective reflections, explore your core values, needs and barriers to inspire a guiding vision that can be returned to, again and again.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Arbiters or Arbitrary?</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/arbiters-or-arbitrary/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ewf.flywheelstaging.com/event/arbiters-or-arbitrary/</guid>
                <description><![CDATA[Letterboxers at film premiers, stan twitter influencing music charts, TikTok dictating theatre seats— everyone is a critic now. But the critics themselves have differing thoughts. Where does the future, or even the present of criticism stand? Join a panel of music, theatre and film critics to investigate the lay-of-the-critic land.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Letterboxers at film premiers, stan twitter influencing music charts, TikTok dictating theatre seats— everyone is a critic now. But the critics themselves have differing thoughts. Where does the future, or even the present of criticism stand? Join a panel of music, theatre and film critics to investigate the lay-of-the-critic land.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Down the Rabbit Hole</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/down-the-rabbit-hole/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[What are the challenges of being a neurodiverse writer? How do we channel our curiosity into works that make sense to others? How do we establish a structure, meet a theme, or worse still, a deadline? Join Chloe Mayne, Sabina Donato and Carl Walsh for a roundtable discussion exploring the ups and downs of the neurodivergent writing process.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[What are the challenges of being a neurodiverse writer? How do we channel our curiosity into works that make sense to others? How do we establish a structure, meet a theme, or worse still, a deadline? Join Chloe Mayne, Sabina Donato and Carl Walsh for a roundtable discussion exploring the ups and downs of the neurodivergent writing process.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Texting Images: Launch</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/texting-images-launch/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Drawing inspiration from Dadaist philosophies towards visual art alongside Maya Deren’s argument for 'amateurism', the 2026 iteration of Texting Images invites participants to write in response to ‘found images’. Across two workshops, participants will develop new writing through discussion, reading, and collaborative feedback, culminating in a celebratory public reading where they will share the work created throughout the program.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Drawing inspiration from Dadaist philosophies towards visual art alongside Maya Deren’s argument for 'amateurism', the 2026 iteration of Texting Images invites participants to write in response to ‘found images’. Across two workshops, participants will develop new writing through discussion, reading, and collaborative feedback, culminating in a celebratory public reading where they will share the work created throughout the program.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Pitch to Press: 10 Years of Grattan Street Press</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/pitch-to-press-grattan-street-press/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Book in for a five-minute slot to present your pitch (one-or-two-paragraph excerpts of your writing) to their panel. It’s essentially literary speed dating -could you be the perfect match for GSP, and vice versa? Whether you have something in the development stage or you’re working on the final draft, Grattan Street Press are up for it.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Book in for a five-minute slot to present your pitch (one-or-two-paragraph excerpts of your writing) to their panel. It’s essentially literary speed dating -could you be the perfect match for GSP, and vice versa? Whether you have something in the development stage or you’re working on the final draft, Grattan Street Press are up for it.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Partner</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>AFTER HOURS at the Convent</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/after-hours-at-the-convent/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Gather for an evening of storytelling, conversation and contemporary voices at Abbotsford Convent.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Gather for an evening of storytelling, conversation and contemporary voices at Abbotsford Convent.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>The Grandparent Story Exchange Launch</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/going-down-swinging-presents-the-grandparent-story-exchange-launch/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Join Going Down Swinging to celebrate the launch of ‘The Grandparent Story Exchange’, a suite of visual and written art inspired by stories given to writers by older members of their community. You’ll hear from both the artists and the ‘storygivers’ in a night celebrating the creative power of intergenerational friendship, conversation, and collaboration.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Join Going Down Swinging to celebrate the launch of ‘The Grandparent Story Exchange’, a suite of visual and written art inspired by stories given to writers by older members of their community. You’ll hear from both the artists and the ‘storygivers’ in a night celebrating the creative power of intergenerational friendship, conversation, and collaboration.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Priceless Advice</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/priceless-advice/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Advice is often dished out when it’s simply not asked for. In fact, advice that charades as being in your “best interest”, often turns out to be, frankly, bad advice. Witness seven writers let loose about the times they’ve received bogus advice, and how it’s sometimes been the inspiration to succeed, just out of spite.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Advice is often dished out when it’s simply not asked for. In fact, advice that charades as being in your “best interest”, often turns out to be, frankly, bad advice. Witness seven writers let loose about the times they’ve received bogus advice, and how it’s sometimes been the inspiration to succeed, just out of spite.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>EWF X Shop Bao Ngoc: Ocean Spells</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-shop-bao-ngoc/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Come join us for a cozy evening of fluid stories paired with food offerings inspired by the bodies of water that have blessed us.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Come join us for a cozy evening of fluid stories paired with food offerings inspired by the bodies of water that have blessed us.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Estuaries</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Story Share &#8211; Melbourne</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/story-share-melbourne/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[EWF's own social gathering for the express purpose of socialising, sharing in-progress works, and receiving descriptive feedback.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[EWF's own social gathering for the express purpose of socialising, sharing in-progress works, and receiving descriptive feedback.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Open Air</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Story Share &#8211; Perth</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/story-share-perth/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[EWF's own social gathering for the express purpose of socialising, sharing in-progress works, and receiving descriptive feedback.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[EWF's own social gathering for the express purpose of socialising, sharing in-progress works, and receiving descriptive feedback.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Closing Night Litfair: How Long is Forever?</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/closing-night-litfair-how-long-is-forever/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Taking place within the majestic grounds of the Abbotsford Convent, wander through stalls selling zines, books, and other handmade wares. Mingle with writers, artists, small press publishers and grassroots collective.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Taking place within the majestic grounds of the Abbotsford Convent, wander through stalls selling zines, books, and other handmade wares. Mingle with writers, artists, small press publishers and grassroots collective.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Performance</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>Nostalgic Debris</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/nostalgic-debris/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Read these four writers' love letters to their formative passions, whims and obsessions from their youth, spanning the digital and real-world.]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Read these four writers' love letters to their formative passions, whims and obsessions from their youth, spanning the digital and real-world.]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>EWF X Hate Mail</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/hate-mail-x-ewf/</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Hate Mail is essentially the act of acting on your feelings. A hobby that is frowned upon and vocabulary that isn’t very ‘ladylike’. The zine, Hate Mail is dedicated to that burning feeling we often let linger, harnessing it and turning it into art. ]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hate Mail is essentially the act of acting on your feelings. A hobby that is frowned upon and vocabulary that isn’t very ‘ladylike’. The zine, Hate Mail is dedicated to that burning feeling we often let linger, harnessing it and turning it into art. ]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Ethers</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <title>The Art of Repair: Finding Your Story Through Conversation, Memory &amp; Memoir</title>
                <link>https://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/the-art-of-repair-latrobe/</link>
                <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Emerging Writers' Festival</dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi—the art of repairing broken pottery with gold—this interactive workshop explores how life's challenges, transitions and defining moments can become the foundation for meaningful storytelling. ]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[Inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi—the art of repairing broken pottery with gold—this interactive workshop explores how life's challenges, transitions and defining moments can become the foundation for meaningful storytelling. ]]></content:encoded>
                <ev:type>Alcoves</ev:type>
                <ev:startdate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:46</ev:startdate>
                <ev:organizer>Emerging Writers' Festival</ev:organizer>
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                <description><![CDATA[The National Writers’ Conference is EWF’s centrepiece weekend of conversations and workshops on craft, publishing and the literary sector at large. Boasting both emerging and veteran authors, as well as the finest hands of the industry, NWC is for every writer, wherever you are in your journey. ]]></description>
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