EWF | Unfinished Business: Writing Memory, Place and Uncertainty

Within so many searing works of fiction, lies a sense of unfinished business. The stories, silences, and emotional residues that linger across generations, relationships, and landscapes.

Drawing on Australian Gothic traditions, join prize-nominated writer Shannon Benton to explore memory as something unstable and shape-shifting, where ambiguity and atmosphere become powerful, creative tools.

Experiment with fragments, uncertainty, and emotional truth, while considering how place, longing, and inherited narratives shape the stories we tell.

About

The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) is one of Australia’s most established and well-respected literary festivals. They exist to develop, nurture and promote Australia’s new writing talent, creating platforms for connecting writing communities and their audiences.

Through the flagship festival in Melbourne and an annual program of events, EWF provides opportunities for emerging writers to develop professionally, and supports them to engage new and larger audiences. They are a place where creativity and innovation are celebrated, where new talent is nurtured and where diverse voices from across Australia are represented.