After receiving over 800 entries to the 2020 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers, we are delighted to announce the 24 writers on this year’s longlist.

Here are our top recommendations for things to sink your teeth/ears/eyes into while we all prepare ourselves for another lockdown.

After receiving over 700 entries to the 2019 Richell Prize, we are excited to announce the six writers on this year’s shortlist.

After receiving an amazing 56 applications, EWF and State Library Victoria are thrilled to announce the 2019 Emerging Writers' Fellowship recipient: Claire Albrecht!

Emerging Writers’ Festival is thrilled to announce the appointment of Alice Muhling as executive director.

This unique event will take you inside – literally inside – one of our Australia’s biggest and brightest publishing houses, Hachette Australia.

The literary festival is a form by which we communicate to an audience, and gather together like-minded people. What we do with that form is entirely up to us. It is vital that programmers consider deeply the context in which we live, play, read and...

Share with us your favourite Australian debut book and you could win one of three copies of Ruth Clare's debut 'Enemy', a daughter's story of how her father brought the Vietnam war home.