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Emerging Writers Festival expands to Adelaide

Firmly focused on writers instead of readers, this hands-on festival aims to energise Adelaide’s already active literary culture.

19 Aug 2014 12:00

Richard Watts

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Writing and Publishing

The Emerging Writers’ Festival helps authors find supportive networks instead of labouring in solitude. Image via litreactor.com.

Though based in Melbourne, one of numerous literary organisations operating out of The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing & Ideas, the Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has ambitions that stretch far beyond the confines of just one city.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts