The program has been announced for this year\u2019s Emerging Writers\u2019 Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 19\u201329 June.<\/p>\n
The festival includes the National Writers\u2019 Conference, which is billed as Australia\u2019s largest gathering of emerging writers. Running from 22\u201323 June at the State Library Victoria, tickets are $80 or $60 concession for a day pass or $110\/$90 for the full weekend. The program includes a range of professional development opportunities for writers and editors, including the Emerging Editors Masterclass on 21 June and the Young Adult Masterclass on 25 June.<\/p>\n
In total, more than 300 guests will appear at over 70 events. The opening night event at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art will feature Paola Balla, Eugenia Flynn and Vicki Couzens, with music by SojuGang. Running under the theme Stay Gold, the closing night event at the Brunswick Mechanics Institute will feature Manisha Anjali, Eugen Bacon, Shel Calopa, S J Finch and Emily Munro-Harrison.<\/p>\n
Other highlights include Ways Of Listening, an experimental evening of speech and sound at State Library Victoria (SLV), with poetry, discussion and performance accompanied by live music; 2222, an immersive audio installation at SLV that invites audiences to listen to speculative futures of the library created by six authors; and EWF X, a series of performance events presented in partnership with Melbourne collectives I See You, Yo Soy, The Waiting Room and\u00a0Liminal<\/em>.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s festival is the third by EWF artistic director Izzy Roberts-Orr. As\u00a0previously reported by\u00a0Books+Publishing<\/em><\/a>, this year\u2019s ambassadors are Katherine Brabon, Toni Jordan, Charlotte Nash, Maria Tumarkin and Alison Whittaker, who will headline the National Writers\u2019 Conference.<\/p>\n To see the program, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The program has been announced for this year\u2019s Emerging Writers\u2019 Festival, which runs in Melbourne from 19\u201329 June. The festival includes the National Writers\u2019 Conference, which is billed as Australia\u2019s largest gathering of emerging writers. Running from 22\u201323 June at the State Library Victoria, tickets are $80 or $60 concession for a day pass or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This news story first appeared in\u00a0<\/em>Books+Publishing<\/a> on 16 May 2019. <\/em>Books+Publishing\u00a0is Australia\u2019s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping\u00a0<\/em>subscribers<\/i><\/a>\u00a0up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"