Alaina Gougoulis is a senior editor and has worked with Text Publishing since 2009. She has edited books by Jennifer Down, Gail Jones, Ellena Savage and Davina Bell, among others, and her international acquisitions include works by Janet Malcolm, Eula Biss, Lucy Ellmann, Ling Ma and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Books on her list have won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the CBCA Book of the Year and state literary awards; been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Stella Prize; and been international bestsellers.
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Tuesday 16 May
Program Launch: New Growth
Celebrate 20 years of Emerging Writers’ Festival, as the 2023 program is revealed.
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Monday 19 June, 6:30pm
Next Big Thing
Discover new works and celebrate fresh writing talent in a special Emerging Writers’ Festival edition of the Wheeler Centre’s much-loved Next Big Thing readings series.

Wednesday 21 June, 8:30am
Morning Pages: Diaries
Join Caitlin McGregor as they highlight habits and tricks for diary fossicking.

Wednesday 14 June – Saturday 24 June
Frayed at the ends
Weaving language, labour and spirit, two poets expose the intersections and splinters that arise when two perspectives are made to share the same space.
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