Five celebrated Australian writers will headline the National Writers’ Conference on June 23-24 as part of the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Festival.

Joint first place winner of the 2017 Monash Prize, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor shares tips for 2018 applicants, her influences, great reads, and picks her dream team of judges for 2019.

Brigid Mullane senior editor at Hachette publishing shares the inside scoop on how to pitch a successful manuscript.

On January 26, the offices of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Express Media, Melbourne Writers Festival and Writers Victoria will be open.

Applications for our Creative Producer Internship Program are now open. Ahead of the 2018 festival, we spoke to some past interns about their experienced in the role, and what they've done in the meantime.

This year, EWF sent comic artist and illustrator Rachel Ang to the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. We spoke to Rachel about her time in Ubud, battling Impostor Syndrome and doing a comics reading at a Pecha Kucha.

Keen to be a part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival in 2018? We have an open artist call-out running until the 3rd of December. Here is a run down about what we would like from you in the submission process.

Announcing the winner of the DWF17 Swinburne Microfiction Challenge