Emerging Writers' Festival 2015

After 2014's sell-out success, Melbourne's Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) is set to turn it up in 2015. With an expanded programming team, the 2015 program has a focus on women stepping up to the mic and is set to be a diverse and dynamic festival.

Just like the wandering writers of today, Emerging Writers' Festival brings the latest generation of Australian writers to Melbourne CBD from May 27 - June 5 with select events in Footscray and Collingwood.

The EWF 2015 program is an educational smörgåsbord for up-and-coming writers and literature lovers. From the professional to the fun, traditional topics of writing, pitching and publishing are dissected, as well as decoding what's really behind a selfie. Masterclasses, performance events, discussions, and readings sit alongside parties and pitch-a-thons.

Understanding that writers work around the clock, EWF 2015 attendance is effortless with a bunch of late-night programmings and a perfectly placed festival hub at Thousand Pound Bend. Next door, CBD favourites Slice Girls Pizza will host three writers a day, each contributing a chapter to a book created throughout the course of the festival.

Exclusively housing EWF festivities in the North, Collingwood's The Good Copy provide a super-sexy reading room for festival goers to get their read-on.

The much anticipated EWF 2015 program launched at The Wheeler Centre on Wednesday April 15. Festival Director Sam Twyford-Moore says, 'The Emerging Writers' Festival is back with an electric new line-up of writers for readers to discover for the first time. It's always an exciting prospect for us to curate a new list of writers, and to bring in some big names to help mentor writers looking to take their work to new places."

Twyford-Moore continues 'The program provides our audience with opportunities to develop writing skills with masterclasses and professional development workshops. It also offers a space for the writing community to meet and celebrate with their fellow writers, editors and storytellers, and take their words to the world."
Whether you're high-brow, low-brow or somewhere in-between, EWF 2015 has it covered. Festival General Manager Kate Callingham says, 'It is so important for events like EWF to encourage and highlight the work of writers who tend to be marginalised in mainstream programs. We are proud to have such a female-heavy program this year. Its a great time to celebrate women's voices and stories."