"I was looking for something big and colourful to do this year; something I could really test myself against and grow through. When I heard about the opportunity to be a Creative Producer at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, I knew it was the perfect...

"All those in-between moments of limbo I’ve had in my life—times when I decided to move across the world or cut ties with someone or start (or quit) a big project—present that opportunity to either succeed or fail spectacularly. The decisions w...

"At this point in my life I know two things for sure: 1. I am at my best when working on creative projects. 2. I have an unfettered love for writers’ festivals."

"I feel more connected with my fellow Melbourne artists and creators than ever before. Getting the chance to work on projects and seeing them start to come to fruition (after weeks of work and prep) is just something so rewarding."

"I think ambition and failure are more closely related than we tend to realise. You pretty much can’t have one without the other. When I look back at some of my (many) failures, they’ve occurred because of ambition, but then I’ve picked myself...

"It was there that I realised that the EWF was a very different festival to mainstream writers’ festivals, representing original, boundary-pushing writers who otherwise might not have a voice - in any language."

"Working on my little corner of the EWF program has allowed me to think about how to engage diverse audiences with all the tremendous, terrifically terrific work Australian writers are doing right now, right at this very moment, right under our very...

Emma Marie Jones on her work, pushing boundaries and EWF