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.

Do you live in regional Victoria and would like to be a part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival 2016? Is there an exciting literary element in your home town that you would like to share to a national and international audience?

We are devastated for our peers within the literary community who have received the news this week that they have been unsuccessful in their applications for renewal of their funding from the Australia Council.