Emerging Writers' Festival Announces Adelaide Program

The Emerging Writers Festival is coming to Adelaide for the first time this September. The festival will run for three days, filled with discussions, performances, workshops and networking opportunities for emerging writers.

Guests of the festival include Benjamin Law (Gaysia, The Family Law), YA novelist Ellie Marney (Every Breath), Daily Life columnist Clementine Ford, Overland fiction editor Jennifer Mills, Voiceworks editor Elizabeth Flux, The Lifted Brow editor Sam Cooney, playwright Ben Brooker, and theatre critic Jane Howard (The Guardian).

The Festival will kick off with Night of the Living Journals, where literary journals such as Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Dubnium, as well as a bunch of Adelaide’s leading zinesters will release their latest issues simultaneously.

The Writers’ Masterclass on the Saturday is a chance for emerging writers to upskill, where they can sink their teeth into digital writing, author marketing, editing, freelancing and performance writing and editing.

Saturday will finish up with Mixtape Memoirs, where writers, musicians and comedians tell stories about their favourite songs. The weekend’s festivities will close with The DIY Day, which will be a series of laid back events that allow festival goers to mingle and get creative.

For more information on the program, check out the website, and for tickets go here.