The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), one of Australia’s most established and well-respected literary festivals, returns September 11 to 18 and this time it’s coming to the inner-west.
In 2025, the festival is teaming up with Hobsons Bay Libraries to promote local writers and also provide creative and professional development for the area’s emerging wordsmiths.
It begins on Saturday, September 13 when award-winning inner-west writer Maha Sidaoui conducts her workshop, Personal Histories, at Altona Library.
From 11am to 1pm, Sidaoui will guide participants through the art of life writing and teach them how to draw from memory, cultural identity, and personal history to tell stories that matter.
On Sunday, September 14 , Louisa Duval and Emma Mugglestone will explore why kissing books can be for every reader and writer in their workshop Happily Ever After.
Held at Newport Library from 11am-1pm, Duval and Mugglestone will explain how to combine an entrepreneurial mindset with different publishing models to write fearlessly, find readers and achieve romance-writing dreams.
Later in the day, from 4.30pm-5.30pm at Williamstown Library, Mugglestone and Sidaoui will be joined by fellow inner-west authors, dystopian fantasy writer Kyle Robinson and poet Miranda Healy, for an afternoon of immersive readings from their latest works.
Writers of all skill levels and backgrounds are welcome to attend the workshops, with no experience needed.
Tickets are pay as you wish, though bookings are essential.
This year’s EWF boasts over 230 artists appearing at 70 events.
Book via: emergingwritersfestival.org.au
