Liminal's Top Picks — Emerging Writers' Festival 2022
From 15—25 June, the Emerging Writers’ Festival invites you to discover new stories, new voices, and new worlds. With more than 50 in-person and digital events, and featuring over 150 artists, EWF has something for everyone—and here are LIMINAL’s top picks for this year’s festival.
Thursday 16 June, 8.00—9.00pm AEST
FREE
Liminal Spaces
We’re really looking forward to our event with EWF. Join editors Leah Jing McIntosh, Adolfo Aranjuez, Danny Silva Soberano and Cher Tan, to discuss how to create spaces for marginalised voices, the importance of working within your community, inter-community collaborations and advice for emerging writers. Bring your burning questions!
Wednesday 22 June, 7.30-8.30PM AEST
$10 / NOTAFLOF
EWF x Rosa Press: We Want Everything
In this EWF X event, Rosa Press features writers whose work is forthcoming in their second pamphlet series: Tabitha Lean, Chelsea Hart, and Carlos Soto Román. The readings articulate abolition, social reproduction, anti-statecraft, and communist futurity.
Ft. Andrew Brooks, Chelsea Hart, Tabitha Lean, Astrid Lorange, and Carlos Soto-Román.
Saturday 25 June, 10.30AM-12PM AEST
Free, bookings required
nex/us: a gathering
nexus: a connection or series of connections linking two or more things. for example, a nexus of theories or relationships.
For the final morning of EWF, First Nations artists and artists of colour are invited to join in a closed space for connection and creativity. Enjoy some light movement and breathwork exercises, followed by specially curated writing prompts. Come in your comfiest clothes, sip on a uniquely crafted tea blend, join a gentle meditation session and connect with fellow writers and storytellers in the beautiful West Space gallery.
Ft. Aminata Diallo and Rhoda Makur.
here & now goes live 15 June
here & now
here & now is a digital anthology collaboration between EWF and Perth’s Centre for Stories. 6 writers have been paired up and spent a month collaborating, sharing work and discussing craft and community with one another. In this anthology, they present their conversations and creativity through poetry, writing and interviews.
Copies of here & now are available on a Pay What You Can basis. Grab your copy now! here & now will be emailed out from 17 June.
Ft. Camila Egusquiza, William Huang, Saanjana Kapoor, Jo Newman, Dženana Vucic, and Beau Windon.
Thursday 23 June,10aM—4PM AEST
$80/ $60 concession
Masterclass: Editing for Writers
Got something you’re working on? Unsure when to stop drafting and start crafting? Learn how to make the best of being your own (first) editor. These experts will talk about the early stages of editing yourself – how to think about pacing and structure, and how to look at your work with fresh eyes. Hear from editors about what they’re looking for when they sit down with a writer’s work and learn how you can look for those things yourself. Then learn how, down the track, when you’re ready to hand editing duties over to someone else who has feedback and criticism, you can best incorporate it to bring out the potential of your work to the fullest.
Ft. Alice Bishop, Paige Clark, Bella Li, Adalya Nash Hussein, Melanie Saward, and Ian See.
Wednesday 22 June, 9PM—10PM AEST
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Late Night Literature: This all Come Back Now
Curated by Mykaela Saunders, join us online an evening to highlight the upcoming First Nations Speculative Fiction Anthology, THIS ALL COME BACK NOW. This special event brings together contributors from the issue from around the continent for an evening of spec fic readings.
Ft. Timmah Ball, Lisa Fuller, Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Jasmin McGaughey, Kalem Murray, Mykaela Saunders.
Thursday 23 June,12.30—1.30PM AEST
Free, Bookings required
Lunchtime Literature: Writing Country
First Nations writers come together to talk about writing Country. Resisting the colonial legacies that so often dictate the writing of place, nature, and climate, learn about the ways in which these writers envisage and enact the writing of Country with respect and care.
Ft. Susie Anderson, Luke Patterson, and Renay Barker-Mulholland.
Thursday 17 June, 7-8pm AEST
$10 / NOTAFLOF*
Lunchtime Literature: Language and Writing
Artists working with, amidst, between, through and around languages discuss the challenges and triumphs of multilingual writing, living and code mixing in contemporary writing, publishing and art.
These artists will cover everything from language preservation and revitalization, to working in a multilingual context, to the ins and outs of literary translation. A celebration of language and storytelling across art forms.
Ft. Monique Nair, Nadia Niaz, and Asiel Adan Sanchez.