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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

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 is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts