STAFF SPOTLIGHT 🍃🐙

Last on our list of team intros for now is Jes Layton, our Executive Director & one half of our leadership for the 2024 Emerging Writers' Festival!
We chatted with Jes about his book tastes & creative habits!!

Get to know Jes: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/?p=20045

#EWF24 is coming 5-15 September 2024! 🔥

Don't forget to add our 2024 festival dates to your calendar. Join our digital newsletter community for all the updates as we gear up for this year's Emerging Writers' Festival!

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We're partnering again this year with AAWP to bring you the Sudden Writing Prize - a unique opportunity for writers under 25 ✏️

$500 cash prize, published work, membership & more!
Deadline: June 30, 2024

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If you struggle with motivation, it can really help to talk it out with someone

Luckily, our in-conversation podcast, Crossings, is sure to get you motivated to keep working on that cool, creative project of yours with these insightful convos!

🎧: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/crossings-the-…

STAFF SPOTLIGHT 🥀✨

Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh is Artistic Director of EWF for another awesome year in 2024! We sat down with Ruby, chatting about recent reads and sneaky previews of the 2024 festival program!

Read the convo & get to know Ruby on our blog: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/?p=20037

The #2024stellaprize shortlist is here!
Massive congratulations to the six shortlisted authors: Katia Ariel, Katherine Brabon, Emily O'Grady, Sanya Rushdi, Hayley Singer and Alexis Wright. Read more: bit.ly/433IYq4

Just under a week left to go for submissions! 💌australianpoetry.org/australian-poe…

Triple R's April Amnesty is now on!

Each donation supports independent media, and helps to keep 3rrrfm's volunteer presenters on the air.  Plus you'll go into the draw to win some amazing prizes.

Subscribe and donate to community radio this April at rrr.org.au

With the 10 year anniversary of the Richell Prize that’s offered by ⁦Hachette Australia Books⁩ & ⁦Emerging Writers' Festival⁩ I sat down and had a chat about my writing journey and my new novel THE THRILL OF IT, that’s out in March next year! hachette.com.au/news/meet-awar…

🚨EMERGING FIRST NATIONS CREATIVES!! 🚨

👉 Join the EWF team!
👉Open nationally
👉Curate our Opening Night at EWF24
👉Get experience with programming a national literary festival

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 1 APRIL, 11:59PM AEST!

🔗: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/work-with-us/

'The programming of Palestinian or Jewish writers critical of Israel is deemed offensive—an absurd characterisation in light of the 30,000 plus Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces over the past five months.' —Alex Dane

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Wanted to apply for Toolkits but ran out of time? Don't even worry about it - we've extended applications over the long weekend so you now have until Tuesday 5pm AEDT! ⏰🐇

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Missed tix to Inside the Publishing House last week???

Don’t worry!! You can hop in the queue for new release tickets ahead of the big event with Hachette Australia Books on 17 April!! 💻✍️

Join the waitlist: confirmsubscription.com/h/y/27141D2E40…

ding ding ding 🥊 here are our contributors to Voiceworks 131 Strike. banger line up!

📢 1 WEEK LEFT TO APPLY FOR TOOLKITS 📢

Nonfic legends, this is your time to immerse yourself in a beautifully crafted learning program by hasib

'Bananas that it's free for members - every emerging writer should apply!'

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Our new issue has just landed! It's packed full of ridiculously good reads from your fav writers, artists + activists, including Dženana Vucic 🍉, Jeanine Leane, Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Brigid Rooney, Anna Quercia-Thomas, Sarah Schwartz, John Docker + more!
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'This trend towards censorship is not just occurring in Australia. Arts Council England recently updated their guidelines to state that artists who make 'overtly political or activist statements' place their funding at risk.' —Alex Dane

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We have 5 tickets to the SOLD OUT Inside the Publishing House event at Emerging Writers' Festival to give away to Writers SA members! 😮

On Wed 17 April, EWF 's virtual event takes you behind the scenes at Hachette - one of Australia’s biggest publishing houses.

writerssa.org.au/2024/win-ticke…

Missed tix to Inside the Publishing House this year??

Writers SA has got exclusive tickets to share with their members!! 👀

SO AWESOME to see Reading the City of Literature back!!

Such a great snapshot of the incredible voices and publications this city is brimming with, and all over just one year!? Awesome job City of Literature 😍🙏

Have a scroll w us: readingthecityofliterature.com/2023/