Clare Carlin

Textile Message at the 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival - Emerging Writers' Festival At the 2025 Emerging Writers' Festival, EWF X Textile: An Exhibition saw an array of artists come together to fuse textile tradition with verbal and written storytelling. Relive this exhibition!

All seven EWF x Textile Message essays and poems are now online to read ✨ emergingwritersfestival.org.au/blog/2025/te...

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🧅 beautifully put Caroline!

Ha! but also so many feelings reading this (surely not the point of The Onion?!)

EWF x Textile Message at No Vacancy gallery, Naarm. Thanks @emergingwriters.bsky.social for everything ✨

If you’re in Naarm / Melbourne this Friday September 12th please join us: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-... @emergingwriters.bsky.social

EWF X Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion. This is an artist’s enquiry into significant clothes and other textile objects.
12/9 Naarm/Melbourne - info👇
emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...

Beyond excited to be part of the Emerging Writers' Festival 2025 with EWF X Textile Message
No Vacancy Gallery September 12th featuring stories from: Leila Lois, Mira Robertson, Anne M Carson, Julia English, Shu-Ling Chua, Trish Bolton, Emilie Collyer & Clare Carlin (host)
Link to event & tix in bio

EWF X Textile Message: An Exhibition - Emerging Writers' Festival Textile Message presents seven stories about favoured and not-so-favoured clothes and textile pieces, woven with memory and emotion.

This will be lovely 🤍 please join us — an exhibition curated by @cecarlin.bsky.social

Friday 12 September, 6:00PM, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/ewf-x-...

"Whoever's found out what location
compassion (heart's imagination)
can be contacted at these days,
is herewith urged to name the place;
and sing about it in full voice,
and dance like crazy and rejoice
beneath the frail birch that appears
to be upon the verge of tears."

~Wisława Szymborska

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Fiction Antigone Kefala is a writer of poetic intensity and integrity. During her childhood, her family fled Romania and arrived in Greece as refugees, before settling in New Zealand and Australia. Her writin...

‘Her peculiar vision is both austere and lyrical, elegantly fluent in the secret ways of the self.’

Isabella Gullifer-Laurie reviews Fiction by Antigone Kefala in The Saturday Paper.

Silence, you know, is something that can’t be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That’s why they fill it with noise all the while - John Berger

Silence, you know, is something that can’t be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That’s why they fill it with noise all the while

- #JohnBerger

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AP announces the INAUGURAL Theresa Matheson Bequest Award 2025 🎉. This new award (with a prize of $1,000) is for poets who have not had a poem published, outside self-publication or via their Social Media. The 2025 judge is Claire Gaskin

Bob Hoskins, Cher and the Trading Places Challenge — Caroline Collett

One day in 1992, I spent a highly-memorable day with Bob Hoskins, dressing him up as Cher. For the full story - which also stars Cilla, MC Hammer, Gazza, Rab C Nesbitt & Blur-dressed-as-Blondie - plus images by the late great Terry O'Neill, read on...
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Episode 3: Porous media—Poetry, Dance & Photography with David Slattery What Moves Them: Conversations in Dance Writing · Episode

Episode 3 of What Moves Them has just dropped ✨🍃

In this episode, we speak to David H. Slattery, interdisciplinary artist & dance lover. He speaks about his new poetry/ dance/ photography project, Belle du Jour, and choreography project with Leila Lois.

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many thanks Isabella ✨

Excellent opportunity for creative practice HDRs and ECRs to share research creative & critical. Eds really take time on the peer review, which is rigorous and generous.
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Leila, yes, thank you, that’s a good one xx